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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: how many roots must DNS have before it's considered broken (Re: ISP network design of non-authoritative caches)
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001, [email protected] wrote: > I agree with all of this, but the issue is moot in my book: Since ICANN > felt the need to either own the world or break it, I went elsewhere. So > did a LOT of others. Look at the mass exodus from NS/Verisign - same > issues. IMNSHO, ICANN cares not a rats [email protected]@ about the internet, they are > only interested in the money and the power. That makes their > "positions" totally meaningless to me, and a lot of others who feel the > same way. You know, I'm sick of hearing that some particular part of the internet "governance" (be it ICANN, ARIN, AuDA, APNIC..) is corrupt, doesn't give a rats ass about the internet, cares about money, power .. Hey. If you were in their position, * what would you have had to do to get there, * what would you have to do to stay there, and * what would you do to make it work reasonably well? Helllllooo! Money is involved. Of course in a capitalist setup you're going to feel this way. The wealth isn't "evenly spread enough". Just like any other mega-monopolostic-guaranteed-income organisation. Sigh. (Personally, I wish to all hell that part of the DNS registration fees still went to "research funds" like they were _supposed_ to way back when.) Do you want to change it? * write/adapt an existing directory technology to replace the really stupid flat namespace DNS has become * write a plugin for IE * write modules for the other popular browsers (w3m, links, lynx, netscape/mozilla, perhaps even Opera if you can figure it out..) * don't turn it into a bloody private thing - open source the software, write the protocol documentation, encourage other people to work on collectively making it better. * Come back to the internet community with it. :) The new.net guys, even though I (a) don't wish to bring them up in polite NANOG conversation and (b) don't agree with what they were trying to do with the DNS space at -LEAST- attempted to gather momentum by end-user adoption/acceptance. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be "catchy". Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "Auntie Em, Hate you. Hate Kansas. <[email protected]> Taking the dog." -- Dorothy
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