William X. Walsh wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:25:56 -0700 (PDT), Greg Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Are there any people from the ISP or NAP community on this list who
> >are willing to comment (even privately) on how willing they have been
> >to point their servers at alternative root zones, or to what
> >extent they want any (or all) of the TLDs in these zones added to the
> >IANA roots?
> Actually such a discussion has been happening over the last couple
> days on an ISP Tech's list, and with all the antics at ICANN and NSI
> over the last year, there is an overwhelming interest, even amongst
> those who, as short as a year ago, were wondering if new TLDs were
> really a good or not.
What is the address of this list? Are there public (downloadable)
archives? I would like to read the comments (and give a few of my
own).
> >Don't consumers already have this choice? They can very well pick an
> >ISP or NAP depending upon what TLDs they resolve (or will let them
> >resolve).
> No, not yet. And the simple fact is that real choice won't happen
> until the root-servers.net root server network is openned to REAL
> competition at the registry level, despite your neverending belief
> that this is not desirable.
Excuse me.
Aside from concerns of what would happen if the number of TLDs exceeds
what current technology supports, I have no objections to more TLDs.
At present I take name resolution from wherever I choose. My ISP
allows me to use other name servers aside from theirs. So I can
resolve things in alternative root zones if I desire. That seems to
me to be consumer choice.
Now, on the other hand, it may not be very well known that consumers
have choices, or that there might be reasons why they should exercise
the choices they have. Is this ICANN's fault? (Note, Mike Roberts is
on record as stating that users can take name resolution from
alternate roots if they wish.)
--gregbo
