[85006] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Fri Sep 30 08:34:11 2005
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:33:13 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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>> It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either
>> A closed service available solely over the gprs network
* brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (Brandon Butterworth) [Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:55 CEST]:
>Until the users want to access the same stuff from their
>PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too
>
>To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to
>work like internet
You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure
in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users
have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on
their phones outside their home country).
When a user "surfs the internet" from their handheld device they get the
real Internet, not some walled garden that has .gprs.
-- Niels.
