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Re: Mostly operational content (was Re: piracy on parade)

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Fri Jul 14 18:13:15 2000

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