North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse
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]>
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