Re: [IFWP] Re: Fw: Re: [ga] Letter from Mike Roberts re: gTLD Constituency Group

[Greg Skinner]

William X. Walsh wrote:

> ICANN has made it VERY clear they ARE restricting entry into the

IANA root

> registry business.

Alternative registries are outside of their scope.

> Your arguments about alternative registries is
> about as disingenious as Tony saying NSI has competition because there
> are 80 ccTLDs that permit global registrations.

I am hardly naive.  I have been around the Internet for almost 20
years.  I remember quite well shlepping /etc/hosts and pathalias
tables around.

DNS didn't just come about by Postel and others saying "It is so."  In
fact it was quite some time before DNS was adopted on a widespread
basis, even within (what was) the ARPA community.  It took a good
deal of coordination, and convincing people that it would work, before
DNS was widely embraced.  (It was never universally embraced, because
people started using private DNS and other alternative setups, for
security and other reasons.)

Perhaps when the alternative registries organize themselves to the
level that the original DNS developers did, ICANN will see fit to add
them to the IANA root.

--gregbo