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Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

  • From: Niels Bakker
  • Date: Fri Sep 30 08:35:15 2005 


It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either
A closed service  available solely over  the gprs network



* [email protected] (Brandon Butterworth) [Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:55 CEST]:



Until the users want to access the same stuff from their
PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too



To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to
work like internet



You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure
in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users
have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on
their phones outside their home country).



When a user "surfs the internet" from their handheld device they get the
real Internet, not some walled garden that has .gprs.





-- Niels.