RE: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
a group of private individuals to do the same thing. > -Original Message- > From: Joe Baptista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better t

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Harald Alvestrand
John Levine wrote: If they can suck down all the top level zone files then it is easy for them to publish an ALTERNATIVE DNS VIEW that contains their own additions. Anyone who uses their view will then see the so-called official DNS info as well as the overlay. When I see claims like this,

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Joe Baptista
Oops - I forgot about that one. Yes the Chinese Ministry of Information and Industry have many chinese top level domains registered. The are now the largest alternative root system on the planet next to icann and resolve for some 150 million users. And i anticipate they will soon surpass tha

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Dambier
John Levine wrote: If they can suck down all the top level zone files then it is easy for them to publish an ALTERNATIVE DNS VIEW that contains their own additions. Anyone who uses their view will then see the so-called official DNS info as well as the overlay. When I see claims like this, I r

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread John Levine
>If they can suck down all the top level zone files then it is easy >for them to publish an ALTERNATIVE DNS VIEW that contains their own >additions. Anyone who uses their view will then see the so-called >official DNS info as well as the overlay. When I see claims like this, I really have to wonde