Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?)

[Todd Underwood <todd () renesys com>]

steve, all.

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:01:22AM -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote:

> problem.  Right now, if you're an end user doing your DNS lookups via the 
> ICANN root, you can get to just about everything.  If you're something 
> that end users want to connect to, using an ICANN-recognized domain will 
> mean almost everybody can get to you, while an "alternative" TLD would 
> mean only a tiny fraction of the Internet would be able to get to you. 
> So, if you're a content provider, why would you use anything other than a 
> real ICANN-recognized domain?  And, if the content providers aren't using 
> real domain names, why would an end user care about whether they can get 
> to the TLDs that nobody is using?

s/ICANN root/real Internet/
s/"alternative" TLD/IPv6/

> The exceptions to this that I see would be either when somebody comes out 
> with something that is so much better that it's useful in spite of a lack 
> of an installed userbase (Skype may be doing this to phone calls), or when 
> something is rolled out to a large enough self-contained user community 
> that the lack of ability to communicate outside that region won't be a 
> significant barrier.  
[...]
> But still, anybody wanting to communicate outside that region or
> userbase would probably find they were much happier using addresses
> that met global standards.

all of this applies directly to lack of IPv6 adoption, again.

> So anyhow, that's a long way of saying that, just as this hasn't gone 
> anywhere any of the many other times it's been raised over the last 
> several years, it's unlikely to go anywhere, or cause problems, this time.

so does this.  IPv6:  unlikely to go anywhere or cause problems.
good to know.  

funny.

all threads eventually merge.  (and then someone mentions the nazis
and they end.  i think meta-mentions like this explicitly don't count
so we may have to suffer through this thread for a while longer).

t.



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