[35682] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Higgs)
Wed Mar 14 17:25:03 2001
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:09:33 -0800
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From: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.net>
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At 01:23 PM 3/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>To be
>precise, what is your response to this, the second paragraph of the
>document?
>
> Put simply, deploying multiple public DNS roots would raise a very
> strong possibility that users of different ISPs who click on the same
> link on a web page could end up at different destinations, against
> the will of the web page designers.
Here it is, a proposed supplement to RFC2826:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-root-defs-00.txt
It's called "cat herding". :-) The short answer is that there's a far
better chance of coordinating the alt.roots into a single unified root,
than suffering the consequences of a permanent and very real root
fragmentation by ignoring them.
Best Regards,
Simon
--
DNS is not a sacred cow that cannot be replaced by something better.
