Mostly operational content (was Re: piracy on parade)

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () mail-abuse org>]

On 07/14/00, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote: 

> But seriously - there's serious operational considerations involved if
> everybody doesn't have a consistent view of the DNS root - it's called
> Balkanization.

        Very true.  There are some who don't care about that, but in
        all the years they've been proposing alternate roots (and I,
        too, was in favor of the idea for a few months, early on), not
        one has ever had more than a handful of real users -- IMHO,
        this is due at least in part to the fact that the spokespeople
        for these schemes confuse invective with salesmanship.

        If your goal is to provide customers with access to the entire
        Internet, and to provide the entire Internet with access to
        your customers, then you'd be doing them a disservice if you
        encourage them to use non-standard top-level domains.

        Who was it who said "what if you had a revolution and nobody
        came?"

        (BTW, this has all been argued here many times before, both
        with and without kooks.)

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