[30078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Mostly operational content (was Re: piracy on parade)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Fri Jul 14 16:44:13 2000
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:05:18 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
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On 07/14/00, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> But seriously - there's serious operational considerations involved if
> everybody doesn't have a consistent view of the DNS root - it's called
> Balkanization.
Very true. There are some who don't care about that, but in
all the years they've been proposing alternate roots (and I,
too, was in favor of the idea for a few months, early on), not
one has ever had more than a handful of real users -- IMHO,
this is due at least in part to the fact that the spokespeople
for these schemes confuse invective with salesmanship.
If your goal is to provide customers with access to the entire
Internet, and to provide the entire Internet with access to
your customers, then you'd be doing them a disservice if you
encourage them to use non-standard top-level domains.
Who was it who said "what if you had a revolution and nobody
came?"
(BTW, this has all been argued here many times before, both
with and without kooks.)
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