[30083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mostly operational content (was Re: piracy on parade)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Jul 14 18:12:25 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:01:03 -0400
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In message <20000714130518.J24018@mail-abuse.org>, "J.D. Falk" writes:
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>On 07/14/00, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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>> 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.
Right. Have a look at the IAB statement on the subject of DNS roots:
http://www.iab.org/iab/IAB-Technical-Comment.txt
--Steve Bellovin
