Re: Mostly operational content (was Re: piracy on parade)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <20000714130518.J24018 () mail-abuse org>, "J.D. Falk" writes:
> 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.

Right.  Have a look at the IAB statement on the subject of DNS roots:
http://www.iab.org/iab/IAB-Technical-Comment.txt


                --Steve Bellovin