"J. Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No. How about real competition? There are 160,000 estimated dns
> administrators who control which root servers are used by their users.
> How much do you think corporate interests would pay these administrators
> for the priviledge of running the global network routing structure?
I imagine corporate interests, in the interest of remaining such will
pay their administrators to point their DNS at the root servers that
offer the level of stability we currently have.
> Let's get active boys and girls, this sillyness is coming to an end.
You are right about one thing. This is basically where the rubber
meets the road. I'll start to believe that there is really going to
be some cyber-revolution, and a real, coordinated effort to offer DNS
service, when I see it. As you point out, no one is taking such an
effort to the Internet community at large. I have never understood
these movements (eDNS, AlterNIC, ORSC, etc); if they *really* expect
to have some impact, they need to lobby for DNS admins to take root
service from them, and guarantee a level of stability that is at
least as good as what we have now. (No offense intended.)
--gregbo
