Dave Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Yes actually. I run my own name servers, and if I choose to, I can switch
> root servers to another set that would offer different (Or even conflicting)
> TLDs. I would never have to know/care about ICANN or NetSol again.
>
True.
> You simply don't have a choice because it's all but written in stone that
> you have to use the commonly accepted root servers if you want to see the
> internet as we see it today.
>
I have my doubts about that. Joe Baptista is eminently more qualified to
address this than me, but unless I'm very much mistaken, the alternative root
servers simply reproduce the "proper" roots, adding in their own TLD's.
The "proper" TLD's are not affected. The Internet looks the exact same.
Except you can view the other TLD's too of course... :)
> But it is your choice, you can either contact your ISP and ask them to
> change root servers (Yeah, right!)
>
I wouldn't be so quick to suggest that it's unlikely to happen. I know
several sysadmins of fairly large ISP's who are seriously considering making
the change. Alternative hostnames are getting into the system - people are
posting on mailing lists with email addresses using alternative tld's. I
think at this stage it's a matter of "when" rather than "if".
As a matter of fact, now I come to think about it, when Joe posted the first
message in this thread, I looked and could see .god. And I use the root
servers installed by the script on my ISP's CD...
> or set up your own name servers and use whatever roots you like.
>
I have. I am.
> They don't and can't stop you from using alternative root servers. The fact
> that there really aren't any feasable options is because of the
> compatibility problems that would occur, not goverentment regulation, IMO.
>
Compatability problems can be overcome, and I don't think they're any more
serious than adding multilingual support, which, ummm... is being introduced.
Listing compatibility problems as a reason not to do it just doesn't stand up
as a valid argument. If we never changed anything because of compatibilty
problems, we'd all be using Lynx.
adam
