[90265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Fri May 12 14:51:42 2006
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:51:13 -0400
From: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>
To: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4464D6BF.9090904@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 5/12/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Elimination of TLDs would in no way mandate that people register domains
> from one global entity. Today we have multiple entities registering
> domains back to multiple authorities, why not just have one authority
> and allow for multiple regional registrars. TLDs just add confusion to
> everything, and add complexity to the back-end.
>
> Perhaps there is a better list to move this discussion to, if someone
> would point me in that direction I would be glad to check it out.
There is no list to which you could move this "discussion" -- that
ship sailed almost 23 years ago (see RFC882 and RFC883).
The complexity added by TLDs has one extremely critical good side
effect: distribution of load by explicitly avoiding a flat entity
namespace. The DNS has a hierarchical namespace for a reason, and
arguments to the contrary will convince on the order of sqrt(-1)
people.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
