At 09:54 PM 9/2/99 -0400, you wrote: > >> >> And as I point out in the paper, having multiple root systems eliminates >> one of the main single points of failure in today's Internet -- the single >> root zone file. (And it has failed in the past.) > > > Karl, > > This strikes me as a rather remarkable observation, > that upon reflection is a fundamental consideration. > Has this ever been discussed before? > > --tony Numerous times. The point of ARPANET was that it was invulnerable to such failures; the current internet has been politically retrogressed into fault intolerance and instability. Bill Lovell
