Re: [IFWP] Multiple roots...

[Jon Zittrain]

Karl,

But I said "direct themselves to any DNS server," not "direct themselves to 
any root server."  Aren't we agreeing that any intermediary can set up a 
DNS resolver, which in turn gets its info from any root server it chooses, 
and then consumers can point to whatever intermediaries they please.  And 
Richard Sexton has written an app to make it as easy as a click for 
consumers to choose.

So what's stopping market forces, as you say, from creating the nicely 
nested (but still not completely overlapping) competitive set of DNS 
services?  I'd imagine only the market itself so far--which has been known 
to miss good opportunities in the space, to be sure.  ...JZ

At 12:31 AM 7/14/99 , Karl wrote:

> > So far as I know, consumers can edit the fields in their network control
> > settings for most OSs to direct themselves to any DNS server willing to
> > resolve names for them.
>
>Actually it is a bit more complicated than that.
>
>Relatively few user machines really point directly at any root server
>system.