On Dec 1, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Patrick Frejborg wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Noel Chiappa
<[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Patrick Frejborg <[email protected]>
> concern about having a mapping database for routing information
How does the mapping database differ, in terms of being a
operational 'weak
point', from the DNS?
If it is similar as the DNS then it will be easier to research and
understand, there is history data available.
I had a look on Wikipedia, found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Abuse_and_regulation
And from there this book, has anyone read it - is it worthwhile to
spend money on?
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=2103A8B5-75F0-49AE-9911-8B87F34E00EC&ttype=2&tid=10205
It has merits, but readers should be aware that the author was a
professional political activist for quite (economic) ideologically
extreme groups before he became an academic a couple of decades back,
and that every research finding that he's made as an academic since
then could be predicted based on that past affiliation alone. If you
share the underlying view that (a) voluntary contractual exchanges of
private property rights based explicitly and exclusively on the price
mechanism are the only legitimate basis for making decisions in any
context, and also that (b) it is definitionally impossible for private
bilateral contracts based on the price mechanism to ever produce a bad
outcome, then the book's ideological bias can be safely ignored.
However, since (a) entails that the IETF, the RIRs, and current system
for managing root DNS are all fundamentally illegitimate, I might be
slightly concerned about the long-term effects of cognitive
dissonance...
TV
Is this the direction we prefer to take?
What if there is only a small address block that do have global rules
and the 5 RIRs would be given their own blocks for which they can
define their own regional rules?
I have no answers, only more questions.
-- patte
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