[35902] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sun Mar 18 16:05:50 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'woods@weird.com'" <woods@weird.com>,
Patrick Corliss <patrick@quad.net.au>
Cc: Karl Auerbach <karl@CAVEBEAR.COM>, "[NANOG]" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:00:23 -0800
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> From: woods@weird.com [mailto:woods@weird.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:01 PM
> The correct way to fight against a DNS root controlled by someone you
> don't like is not to propose multiple DNS roots, but rather
> to campaign for a democratic root.
That campaign has been on-going for quite a few years. It continues to go
nowhere. The rest of us are begining to get fed-up with the anti-progress.
Kent Crispin repeatedly claims that ICANN is a corporation and not a
democratic entity. In this case he is correct. I disagree with him that this
is a desired outcome. Crispin and Crocker are of the opinion that
(non-democratic) status quo is acceptable.
> Auerbach's proposal is not
> technically sound and
> is political suicide.
As someone who spoke with Karl before he wrote that proposal, there was a
lot involved that wasn't published.
