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In message <[email protected]>, "J.D. Falk" writes: > >On 07/14/00, [email protected] wrote: > >> But seriously - there's serious operational considerations involved if >> everybody doesn't have a consistent view of the DNS root - it's called >> Balkanization. > > Very true. There are some who don't care about that, but in > all the years they've been proposing alternate roots (and I, > too, was in favor of the idea for a few months, early on), not > one has ever had more than a handful of real users -- IMHO, > this is due at least in part to the fact that the spokespeople > for these schemes confuse invective with salesmanship. > > If your goal is to provide customers with access to the entire > Internet, and to provide the entire Internet with access to > your customers, then you'd be doing them a disservice if you > encourage them to use non-standard top-level domains. Right. Have a look at the IAB statement on the subject of DNS roots: http://www.iab.org/iab/IAB-Technical-Comment.txt --Steve Bellovin
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