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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?)
steve, all. On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:01:22AM -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote: > problem. Right now, if you're an end user doing your DNS lookups via the > ICANN root, you can get to just about everything. If you're something > that end users want to connect to, using an ICANN-recognized domain will > mean almost everybody can get to you, while an "alternative" TLD would > mean only a tiny fraction of the Internet would be able to get to you. > So, if you're a content provider, why would you use anything other than a > real ICANN-recognized domain? And, if the content providers aren't using > real domain names, why would an end user care about whether they can get > to the TLDs that nobody is using? s/ICANN root/real Internet/ s/"alternative" TLD/IPv6/ > The exceptions to this that I see would be either when somebody comes out > with something that is so much better that it's useful in spite of a lack > of an installed userbase (Skype may be doing this to phone calls), or when > something is rolled out to a large enough self-contained user community > that the lack of ability to communicate outside that region won't be a > significant barrier. [...] > But still, anybody wanting to communicate outside that region or > userbase would probably find they were much happier using addresses > that met global standards. all of this applies directly to lack of IPv6 adoption, again. > So anyhow, that's a long way of saying that, just as this hasn't gone > anywhere any of the many other times it's been raised over the last > several years, it's unlikely to go anywhere, or cause problems, this time. so does this. IPv6: unlikely to go anywhere or cause problems. good to know. funny. all threads eventually merge. (and then someone mentions the nazis and they end. i think meta-mentions like this explicitly don't count so we may have to suffer through this thread for a while longer). t. -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood director of operations & security renesys - interdomain intelligence [email protected] www.renesys.com
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