[105596] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Jun 27 15:27:13 2008
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:23:53 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080627185846.GB26861@catpipe.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>> realistically, I figure there aren't many other ways in which
>> additional opportunities for competition can be created.
> Allowing anyone to register a TLD is one, but I do agree it's not
> necessarily a trivial model.
we have two tools with which to build scale, distribution and hierarchy.
this goes against both, though maybe the latter a bit more than the former.
this is one of those where the short term business/political gain trumps
the long term pain it can cause. we're not very good at this kind of
trade-off because we discount future pain very very heavily.
and you gotta love the spin that excess pain will be damped by the very
high fee. i wonder how much of it will go to where the pain is actually
felt, the root servers.
randy
