At 11:26 AM +0100 2005-07-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that the marketing people are going to win
this one. There is no marketable benefit to the ICANN
root zone but there are clear advantages for countries
using non-Latin alphabets to switch to a root zone that
allows for their own language to be used in domain names.
That works, up until the point where India decides to use a
different alternative root solution than China does. That works, up
until the point where the inexperienced alternative root operators
screw something up and their entire "expanded" Internet goes down,
while the real root servers continue normal operations.
The balkanization of the 'net is something to be avoided at all
possible costs.
Turkey was recently mentioned and that is also a country
that uses a non-Latin alphabet.
It doesn't matter how many non-Latin alphabets you introduce.
What matters is that there can be only one root.
--
Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
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