In message <000801bfede1$db5ca690$aba4b9d0@PEREGRIN>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" writ es:

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Right. Have a look at the IAB statement on the subject of DNS roots: http://www.iab.org/iab/IAB-Technical-Comment.txt

Yes, pure politics, zero operational content. When was the last time the IAB released a technical, politically neutral paper? Ans: a ver long time ago (years). That paper caused me to cast a negative vote for Brian Carpenter, in the last ISOC elections. They presented zero technical support for their position. It was all anecdotal, pure opinion, no substance.

I suspect I'm going to regret even responding to this, but... Did you even read that document before posting? It's purely technical -- it outlines the purely-technical reasons why the DNS has to have one root if we're to have effective communication on the net. As for technical papers -- if nothing else, there are the workshops the IAB sponsors; the reports of those workshops are also on the IAB Web page. The report on the Network Layer workshop is about to be released; there are also forthcoming RFCs on QoS and security.

I submit that the IAB isn't doing its job and until they do, they should refrain from wasting their resources in the policy arena.

I suspect that the entire IAB wants to spend less time on politics -- I know I'd rather stick to the technical stuff. But external affairs are explicitly our responsibility, per RFC 2580 and its predecessort, RFC 1601. --Steve Bellovin