On 15-Nov-99 Mark C. Langston wrote:
> I can understand his desire to maintain stability; hell, I'm for it.
> But other than hand-waving and fortune-telling, I haven't heard a good
> technical reason against multiple roots. I don't want to start a holy
> war, but is there a good solid techincal reason why multiple roots
> wouldn't work? (Keep in mind, when I say "multiple roots", I mean
> a small number [5 or so] of mutually-exclusive roots.) Let's avoid
> politics entirely, and let me ask the question this way: Is there
> a good technical reason why com, net, and org couldn't be broken up
> into three seperate roots?
>
The way you describe it, we're already running under multiple roots in
the sense that all the ccTLD's have their own system of root servers.
At some level though, if you still want everything to be able to "see"
everything else, there has to be a final, root level (a meta-root?),
at the very least to delegate the TLD's to their respective roots.
And no, IMHO there is no reason why this can't happen (in theory). As long
as everyone can agree that collisions are a Bad Thing and then hammer
out a consensus for what roots get delegated what TLD's (HA!) and a
policy for maintenence, minimum levels of service, disputes, uptime,
etc. Then it would work fine.
The best place to start then, would be with the existing legacy root
servers, which already delegate the ccTLD's out and could easily split
off .com/.net/.org/ off into seperate roots if anyone had an incentive
to do it, and there was nobody with vested interests at stake to prevent
it :)
It would then be trivial to do things like delegate .per to Iperdome,
.zoo to Sexton, .box to WXW, .666 to me ;) .fcn to Bob Allisat,
IOdesign and CORE would have to have final thumb-wrestle to the death to
decide .web, Jeff Williams and his billions would muscle in with his
SROOTs and then Robin Cook and company over at tldns.com would pipe up
claiming .*
Nice and tidy, just like that.
-mark
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