>But they didn't get the Internet community at large to comply with it.
>I think this is a critical point. What prayer do you have of ICANN accepting
>new TLDs (of your choosing) into the root when the Internet community at
>large hasn't shown any willingness to go along with it?
I maintain eDNS was never looked at with an open mind and any sense of
objectivity. Admittedly this was difficult with characters like Kashpuroff
and Denninger around, but they're gone now.
Lets's step back... way back and take a birds eye view at what
happened 3 or 4 years ago.
Alternative TLD and root servers popped up. This scared the crap
out of a lot of people any annoyed others.
There was a tendancy to say "hey, what if we set up a non-profit
to be the central registry" (and I said this, too).
Now, what *should* have happened, IMO, was each group should
have said of the other: "Interesting. I don't think thats the
way it should be and we're doing it this way, but let's
live and let live and agree where we can and get on with
what we have to do".
Instead we've had back stabbing, secret deals, backroom
arrangements, and a complete and utter lack of respect
of each others work.
And it's not any better.
This can go on forever.
If we let it.
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The old man was asked, why were these men and boys willing to stand up to the
mightiest army in the world? Was it the taxes on tea and other imports? No, he
said. Was it the thinking from all the great books coming from Europe? No, books
were rare and precious things which most couldn't afford. Then, he was asked again,
WHY? His answer was... "Because they were of a mind to govern us and we were of a
mind to govern ourselves."
