ok. given what you have said. if most people ended up using new.net's
servers as their root servers, is there anything which would legally bar
new.net from deciding to become authoritative for the .com namespace? i
realize that this would be in no ones best interest and would probably be
widely considered to be the root of all evil (no pun intended), but i am
curious whether they could do so without breaking any laws. i expect that
most people will use stub zones as you have and that this would be a
non-issue, but my curiousity remains.
-matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matt Prigge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Patrick Greenwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Guennadi Moukine"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: Re[4]: New TLDs working already?
> Hello Matt,
>
> Thursday, May 10, 2001, 3:48:39 PM, Matt Prigge wrote:
>
> > I did not realize that. It was my assumption that the government had
> > delegated the responsibility of managing the namespace to them, not just
the
> > servers. Now I really dont understand where ICANN is coming from with a
lot
> > of this stuff.
>
> The USG did delegate (in essence, though not technically), but the
> point is that the there is nothing to enforce this concept that some
> have that namespace is a "single" thing.
>
> The only control the root servers have over the internet is that which
> they are given by the co-operation of the network operators who point
> their dns servers to use those roots for nameserver resolution.
>
> There is nothing that requires them to do so.
>
> So there is no way that the USG can mandate that all dns resolution
> derives from ICANN controlled root servers. It would, in fact, be
> impossible for them to do so.
>
> ICANN controls the namespace that they have control over. What
> happens outside of that namespace, in new.net or other privately run
> alternative root server networks, is outside of ICANN's control.
>
> ICANN cannot tell me what to put in my dns servers. Nor can New.net.
>
> However, I do voluntarily resolve through the root server system that
> ICANN has at least symbolic control over. I also use the stub
> configuration offered by new.net to resolve most (if not all) of their
> TLDs with my nameservers.
>
> It is only through our mutual agreement that we use ICANN's root
> server system.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Owner, Userfriendly.com
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