[45869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Feb 26 21:01:58 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:59:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Patrick <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:36:31 PST, Vadim Antonov said:
>
> > 1) first-come first-served registration
>
> Unfortunately, the concept is totally borked right here, mostly
> because of the use of DNS as a yellow-pages. Two companies that own
> trademarks in different fields of business both have to register under
> .COM (ok, so they *could* register under .US - hah), with the obvious
> outcomes we've known to love and enjoy (Anybody remember who the
> *original* owner of abc.com was?)
>
> There's no way you can pile 23 million (or however many it is now) things
> into one level of namespace and actually expect people to play nicely.
Yep, I agree. Replacing DNS completely with hyperlinks from various
directories would be a good thing. But, unfortunately, most of the
existing software won't work w/o DNS.
--vadim
