Let it be tiered (Score 2, Interesting)

If the networks you're using aren't what is your ideal image of it, create your own. - I'm pretty sure nations like China will soon introduce their own version of the Internet. They're not too happy about the idea that the US still dominates it.
This tiering idea has many good aspects, if you have a certain corporate stand to look at it. Of course, we would then have these corporation owned networks, as well the good old Internet.

I think we already have a tiered system, alternative root nameservers and such, but they lack recognition from ISPs. It would be interesting to create this type of a system and gain public interest towards it. Gradually operators may want to start to support that network of rootservers as well. - I think there are many misconceptions about this issue. It is like intranet, very large intranet. Like when Google now plans their own version of the Internet, to cut bandwidth costs.
Globally, I do not see this tiered system to cause any threat to this system we now have. - Let us consider this free service, and the rest will be content-delivery channels for corporations - or whatever they want to with them.