Craig Simon wrote:
>This says nothing of the substance of such a code, nor of how to make it
>binding and enforceable. But I would argue: 1) Members of the DNS
>industry should try to map out and level the playing field by making
>this sort of a formal commitment to each other, and; 2) Internet
The problem is that the "DNS industry" is a particularly
difficult choice. The "industry" fundamentally consists
of 1) those who produce BIND code, 2) those who run the
local DNS servers which end users reference, 3) those
who maintain zone servers in the DNS hierarchy, and
4) those who maintain zone information within the
hierarchy (registries/registrars).
When a two-day legal conference on DNS convened in
Washington two years ago to develop the elements of
a code, it pretty much came to a halt because it was
unable to deal with the distributed complexity of
"the DNS industry." The "commitments" became a four
dimensional array of variables. It appears we're
about to take another ride on that carrousel.
Recall the old adage about hard cases making bad law.
Whatever is devised here will serve as a precedent for
other Internet service sectors that are far more
important than DNS.
--tony
