On Sat, 25 May 2002, Randy Bush wrote: > but semi-clued governments and semi-clued folk in general seem to > be attracted to the domain name space. i suspect it is one of > those areas that appear simpler, more powerful, and more lucrative > than they actually are. running a cctld well is a major pita with > no thanks and thin rewards.
The net worked before DNS existed, and could work after DNS. If DNS serves no other purpose than to keep semi-clued governments and semi- clued folks in general distracted from messing with things which could really break the net, its good. I'm more concerned about well-meaning people and Secure-BGP than DNS.