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Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

  • From: Todd Vierling
  • Date: Wed Jul 06 07:52:28 2005

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, [email protected] wrote:

> >    The reverse problem is more difficult to deal with -- that of
> > people wanting to access Chinese (or whatever) sites that can only be
> > found in the Chinese-owned alternative root.
>
> There was a time when email service was almost universally
> bundled with Internet access service. Nowadays it is
> quite common for people to get their email service from
> a different supplier than their access. There is no reason
> why DNS resolution could not similarly be unbundled from access.

1. Security ("man-in-the-middle").

2. Common interoperability.

3. *Common sense.*  [Erm, oh yeah, perhaps I shouldn't feed the troll.
   After all, this is the same guy who thinks that resurrecting the
   long dead concept of source routed e-mail is scalable.]

You really should read RFC2826 sometime.  It's quite short, as RFCs go.

> If the Internet is to become a global universal network then, by
> definition, it must become balkanized.

Fragmenting the namespace with "alternate" TLDs, breaking common
interoperability, is hardly a path to "universal."  BZZZT, try again.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>