-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Steve Gibbard Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:20 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Mark Andrews wrote:

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That doesn't mean a competing system wouldn't work, for those who are using it. They'd just be limited in who they could talk to, and that generally wouldn't be very appealing.

Are you just making noise here, Steve? That doesn't really say anything outside of status quo.

That said, a big country implementing a new DNS root on a national scale may not have that problem. The telecom world is already full of systems that don't cross national borders. In the US case, think of all the cell phones that have international dialing turned off by default,

That's a poor example. That's between the subscriber and their carrier, not a technical limitation.

and all the 800 numbers whose owners probably aren't at all bothered by their inability to receive calls from other countries.

That's also a poor example since there are work arounds for this technical issue.

A system that would limit my ability to talk to people in other countries doesn't sound very appealing to me.

I know. I know. Don't feed the trolls. -M<