Comment Re:So don't point your DNS at ICANN's root servers (Score 1) 138
After reading the IETF document http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-vi rtual-root-00.txt,
it's pretty clear that they are saying that 1)independent TLDs are not necessarily "destablizing".
2)However any "Virtual Inclusive Root" scheme is going to require SOME kind of conflict resolution mechanism and SOME form of structure/body to oversee it-- it would be like '1 level up' from what we now think of as ICANN/InterNIC.
They conveniently leave the details of such a structure for now: "The methods for allowing DNS clients and resolvers to resolve Virtual Inclusive Root will be described in a different document."
Anarchy is not a good model for providing structure to the internet domain name space. If ICANN can be improved, we should apply the pressure to make it happen.
However I think that trying to find an absolute alternative would probably be asking for a greed-ridden feeding frenzy and further affirmation of the Repiublican ideal that Money is Power.
it's pretty clear that they are saying that 1)independent TLDs are not necessarily "destablizing".
2)However any "Virtual Inclusive Root" scheme is going to require SOME kind of conflict resolution mechanism and SOME form of structure/body to oversee it-- it would be like '1 level up' from what we now think of as ICANN/InterNIC.
They conveniently leave the details of such a structure for now: "The methods for allowing DNS clients and resolvers to resolve Virtual Inclusive Root will be described in a different document."
Anarchy is not a good model for providing structure to the internet domain name space. If ICANN can be improved, we should apply the pressure to make it happen.
However I think that trying to find an absolute alternative would probably be asking for a greed-ridden feeding frenzy and further affirmation of the Repiublican ideal that Money is Power.
