TLDs, ICANNalia, etc, etc, etc......

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: mo () ccr org (Mike O'Dell)
Date: June 3, 2005 5:27:40 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: TLDs, ICANNalia, etc, etc, etc......



there is no technical reason for synthetic scarcity in DOT
or otherwise.

DOT and any (or all) TLDs can be the union of (possibly
overlapping) pieces. your aggregator can disambiguate as a
service, for instance. (or aggregate yourself if you care)
mathematical perfection is no required and possibly not
even desirable.

just flush the whole centralized notion and throw it open to
innovation at the edge.

some of us knew that creating a big, ugly piece of "common
equipment" in the center of DNS was a huge botch.  but we
did the experiment anyway and the data is compelling.

time to excise the diseased code and get on with getting it
together anew.

and no, it's unlikely the sky will fall.
"flaming toads from the sky" is a maybe, but not "falling sky".

harumph.

    -mo




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