Does ICANN expect to control all names in
the name space?
Jay,
You have posed the key question.
It's already answered, in a sense. We're not dealing
with "space" here, but with zones. The contents of
the chaos.com. zone file are mine to control and share
as I wish. I pay Network Solutions to publish a pointer
to them, and I'm comfortable with that relationship.
ICANN presently has nothing - and may at most acquire
single root zone file - to the extent that those running
DNS servers chose to point to it.
The DNS works fine right now. To the extent ICANN has
any value-add, it's in doing the same thing the Jon did -
facilitating coherent cooperation. ...and that's not
control.
--tony
