Re: [IFWP] Re: Membership & supermajorities

[Gene Marsh]

At 07:25 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 06:51 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>>In other words, if there were to be established a viable non-ICANN root
>>system, then all this effort to establish advisory committees, Supporting
>>Organizations, WIPO rules, ADR, taxes/fees, etc would all exist only on
>>those things willing to voluntarily accept the rules derived from the
>>ICANN root (and possibly the ICANN TLDs). Everyone and everything else
>>would be exempt.
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>> --karl--
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>Which certainly has its appealing aspects. But 'splain something: I'm
>sitting here on, say, a xxx.com or a xxx.net ISP, and I want to search a
>.per or a .biz, or more exactly I want to search on whatever, some of
>which may happen to be on .per or .biz. Alternatively, I want all the people
>on .per and .biz to find my pages, of which (as happens to be the case)
>I have one on .com and another on .net. How do we communicate?
>Or are we existing as in the latest pseudo-physics fad, alternative universes;
>coexisting in time and space but separated by a warp factor, a wrinkle in
>the continuum, or whatever?
>

Bill, this is a simple one. The only problem is one of marketing.

It is very easy to have your machine point to more than one (and in most cases at least three) DNS servers. In a simple bifurcated root, pointing to two or three would likely do.

It gets a bit more problematic (although certainly very easy to overcome) if there are multiple roots. One of the DNS servers could certainly be a "resolving" root server, determining which root to which to refer. Another approach would be to implement a heirarchically superior root syste ("super root") which allows for root - then - TLD resolution.

Of course, these are simple examples. But the solution is also simple. It is a matter of coordinated agreement on which approach to use, then doing it.

Again, the core problem is one of marketing. If a better mouse trap is built, but no one knows of it or how to use it, nothing has been accomplished.

The technology is easy.

Gene...
>Bill Lovell
>http://cerebalaw.com
>http://wend.net (not yet posted)
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Gene Marsh
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