ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management

Simon Higgs simon at higgs.com
Wed Feb 27 06:49:12 UTC 2002


David,

At 06:13 PM 2/26/2002 -0800, David Conrad wrote:
>On 2/26/02 11:49 AM, "Simon Higgs" <simon at higgs.com> wrote:
> > That's the point. Two (or more) companies don't *HAVE* to fight for
> > identical flat space.
>
>Most people want to be able to get to the same server when they type the
>same domain name from two different places.

Yes. That's how it's supposed to work. What exactly is your point here?

>Sorry this doesn't conform with the way you want things to work.

Um... actually it does. You must be reading the Cliff notes for either Kent 
Crispin's "Complete Idiot's Guide to Alt.Roots", or Stuart Lynn's "The 
Emperor's Dress Code."

The bottom line is that expanding the name space with additional TLDs 
solves this problem. Then "Two (or more) companies don't *HAVE* to fight 
for identical flat space" - because they are each given unique space. Duh!

Holding onto an artificially constrained flat space makes things worse. 
It's a really bad, bad, bad idea. Why would you even consider supporting 
such a thing?



Best Regards,

Simon

--
DNS is not a sacred cow that cannot be replaced by something better.




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