"J. Baptista" wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Darrell Greenwood wrote:
>
> > Oddly, you don't advance your reasons for believing the opposite.
>
> No problem. Here's my answer. I think if NSI ran the roots, it's
> shareholders would make more money. Why? Well anyone running the planets
> infrastructure is going to make a few more bucks.
>
> > Ken may have different reasons, but from my point of view after
> > reading emails for the last few years on these lists the answer is
> > quite simple. NSI would become another alternate root system which
> > nobody would point to.
> >
> > There are examples of a number of spectacularly unsuccessful attempts
> > to run an alternative root system lying in the archives. NSI would
> > be, and is, no different. NSI simply become another unsuccessful
> > attempt at running an alternative root system, wrecking their
> > business in the process.
>
> Well, most of the root failures can be traced to the fact most of the
> people involved have a good graspe of the technical aspects, but
> absolutely no understanding of the business basics. Most of them also
> have no money, so it makes getting the venture off the ground a difficult
> task at best, if not altogether impossible.
>
> I've addressed this on another conference. As you may know, we here at
> Planet Communications & Computing Facility have mapped the internets
> infrastructure and as a result we know who runs it. We have their names
> and numbers. That task for any root server confederation would be easy to
> do.
>
> The difficulty comes in getting those people to change thier root server
> files. I am one of those dns administrators and I have yet to be offered
> a viable reason why I should switch. So one has to offer them a reason to
> switch.
>
> Just giving these people an expanded tld structure is not a selling point.
> You can offer them TLD's till the cows come home and that's not going to
> be much incentive because there's very little content in them.
>
> There you go.
>
> Cheers
> Joe Baptista
>
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