"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>At 10:23 AM 1/13/99 -0500, Bob Allisat wrote:
>> Internet Governance may well be the way to go. Power to
>> the people and direct is the solution to all this central
>> authority bull-ship.
>The people already have the power! Or did sombody make you pointyour
>DNS somewhere in particular?
Perhaps the people have the power, but (for now), the vast majority of
them have chosen to believe the NSI/IANA roots.
What would make them change? That is hard to say. I suspect that
most home users are following the instructions that their ISP gives
them. So then we look to the ISPs. What benefits do ISPs gain by
pointing their DNS at alternative roots? Since there is also a good
deal of Internet business use, what added value is there for a company
(who runs its own DNS) to point at alternate roots?
One thing that the NSI/IANA roots *do* offer is a certain degree of
reliability and stability. That's something that, imho, can't really
be overlooked.
--gregbo
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