Re: proposed government regulation of .za namespace

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sat, 25 May 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> but semi-clued governments and semi-clued folk in general seem to
> be attracted to the domain name space.  i suspect it is one of
> those areas that appear simpler, more powerful, and more lucrative
> than they actually are.  running a cctld well is a major pita with
> no thanks and thin rewards.

The net worked before DNS existed, and could work after DNS.  If DNS
serves no other purpose than to keep semi-clued governments and semi-
clued folks in general distracted from messing with things which could
really break the net, its good.

I'm more concerned about well-meaning people and Secure-BGP than DNS.