and otherwise -- I (or the author) shouldn't have to go into. If each root zone is unique (and they would have to be, else they would be coordinated and therefore not "multiple root zones"), there is nothing to stop one root zone from adding a {TLD,SLD} which already exists in another.

Agree, but who will decide who owns which unique block, if new.net is permitted to make money from selling .shop or whatever then I want a piece of that, why should they own it and not me?

Where do I point my client cache to get said glue?) No matter how much you want to distribute elements of the root zone, if conflicts must be avoided (as they must in this case) then there has to be a final word from somewhere to eliminate them.

Precisely the reason why new.net should not do this off their own back and without the "okay" from some global central body - regardless of whether you personally agree or not with who that body is.

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This is a matter of mathematics, not politics. How to get root glue to all clients that need it is a technical topic. Who should be the distributor of that glue is a political topic. This is the crux of the matter.

So, since 2826 never states who should be the distributor, it's not engaging the political topic in question...

Well it avoids the issue, but I think we already have a distributor, we can change who that is but we shouldnt add another, there should be only one.. Steve