"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What's revolution got to do with it ? I'm just saying there's a
> tradition of some combinaiton of rough consensus and clueful
> administrative fiat that has always opened top level expansion
> of any Interent naming system you care to examine, and that
> could work here, but not as lonf as the USG is running around
> sayinf "we're in charge, we may nopt have a clue what this
> is all about but we control everything".
OK, maybe I should be more direct here.
What is the root server operators' position on the IANA roots? Under
what conditions are they prepared to add new TLDs? Are they prepared
to defy the USG's orders that they not do this? What is the level of
commitment the hundreds of thousands of net admins who configure their
DNS servers to the root server operators (as compared with the level
of stability that they are currently providing)?
I work with the operations group of my company, and there's been
absolutely no discussion about using alternate roots for any reason.
Vixie works for us in some capacities, and so far, this issue has not
come up at all, as far as I know. When Brian Reid was still here,
there were no meetings that I knew of where the subject of alternate
roots was brought up, or any plans made for getting service from any
other providers of root service. In fact, it's only on these "domain
name controversy" oriented lists that I hear anything about alternate
root service.
Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I would have thought I'd hear at
least a peep from someone on these issues.
If there is some type of comprehensive plan afoot for alternate DNS
root service, why hasn't it gotten more publicity? You realize, of
course, that lack of publicized knowledge of what the root server
operators have planned might be construed as "a lack of openness and
transparency"; namely, a major criticism against ICANN.
If I'm being dense, tell me. I'd *really* like to be clued in on what
is planned in the event of an ICANN demise, or some other instability
of the root server system. I'm sure others would like to be similarly
clued in.
--gregbo
