At 01:23 PM 3/13/01 -0500, you wrote:

To be precise, what is your response to this, the second paragraph of the document?

Put simply, deploying multiple public DNS roots would raise a very strong possibility that users of different ISPs who click on the same link on a web page could end up at different destinations, against the will of the web page designers.

Here it is, a proposed supplement to RFC2826: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-root-defs-00.txt It's called "cat herding". :-) The short answer is that there's a far better chance of coordinating the alt.roots into a single unified root, than suffering the consequences of a permanent and very real root fragmentation by ignoring them. Best Regards, Simon -- DNS is not a sacred cow that cannot be replaced by something better.