At 10/23/02 1:27 PM, Philippe Landau wrote:
>like with TV stations, users choose their providers/ISP.
>some get it via airwaves (regulated), some via cable, some satellite.
>most TLDs are uncontested, others will have less success, as you say.
The domain system is nothing like TV channels. When you give another
person a way to contact you, you don't give them a TV channel number; you
give them your physical address, phone number, e-mail address, or Web
site.
With any of these ways of contacting you, you expect that the person
typing or dialing it will reach you, and only you. You don't expect, for
example, that someone using AT&T as their telephone company will be able
to reach your telephone number, but someone using MCI Worldcom won't be
able to reach you because MCI made a marketing deal with Sprint instead
of AT&T and Sprint reallocated existing AT&T area codes to their own
customers. Yet this is exactly the kind of nonsense that alternate root
proponents suggest is desirable with TLDs.
>freedom of choice and voluntary standards, not regulation, are internet's
>success.
You make it sound like DNS admins are being forced by law to use the DOC
roots against their will. There *is* freedom of choice, and people can
use whatever roots they want. However, the way to get any sort of
reasonable interoperability with the rest of the Internet is to use
standard roots, and the voluntary standard that people have adopted is
the 13 DOC root servers.
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