At 12:35 AM 3/1/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote:
>At 01:39 AM 2/28/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
> However, I acknowledge that ICANN is a different beastie than
>>NSI. BTW, from a tech stand-point, I already have the TLDs running
>>internally and providing service, for which I get paid. Also, the ICANN is
>>not the sole gate-keeper of the Internet.
>>
>>Uh, I'm on the net whether ICANN likes it or not. Therefore your first "if"
>>fails. Also, I don't have to state a dependency of getting into the root. I
>>can provide the service under a private TLD and thus qualify for trademark
>>registration. Anyone using my name servers (which include my own
>>root-server cluster) can access my TLD. Now I want wider access for the TLD
>>and I petition the ICANN for root-server inclusion. Failing there, I file
>suit.
>></hypothetical>
>>
>Picking out just one aspect of this bit, you say you're on the net whether
>ICANN likes it or not, but at a particular stage you are not included in the
>root server. So, who knows you're there?
a.root-srvr.mhsc.net
b.root-srvr.mhsc.net
c.root-srvr.mhsc.net
d.root-srvr.mhsc.net
e.root-rvr.mhsc.net
Which are indirectly available through our NS(n).MHSC.NET name server system.
>Will I get your site if I enter it here from the wilds of Oregon?
Yes, our name server system are available to the net. We can give selective
access via routing. We do dynamic routing via gated. MHSC has an ASN with
ARIN and we are multi-homed through four different up streams.
>What DNS will you be on?
MHSC.NET
>Do you show up in anyone's whois? Which one(s)?
whois.InterNIC.net
>Could I email you, and you email me?
That gets a little tricky. If we want to connect our private TLDs to the
Internet mail system we have to do a little MX magic. This wouldn't be
required if they were in the roots.
>Can you get the newsgroups, download messages and upload your
>own?
>From inside our private TLDs, the users have full access to the Internet.
If the external hosts use the MHSC.NET name servers, or secondary their
data, they can access our internal TLDs.
>What if I PINGed you? etc., etc. In short, what would you have
>if you were included in the root server that you don't have now?
Full public name server resolution not completely dependent on MHSC.NET
name servers. You must understand that the root server system is merely a
lookup of other name servers. It does not provide the TLD info by itself,
only the reference to the TLD root-servers. MHSC, as a TLD registry, would
have to run it's own TLD root-servers, as would any other TLD registry, as
does NSI.
>Who would your alternative gate keeper(s) be?
The NS(n).MHSC.NET name server system.
>These are not smart alec questions: I just want to make sure we're
>operating from the same premises. Uh, logical premises, that is. :-)
Understood.
___________________________________________________
Roeland M.J. Meyer -
e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet phone: hawk.lvrmr.mhsc.com
Personal web pages: http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer
Company web-site: http://www.mhsc.com
___________________________________________________
KISS ... gotta love it!
