The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sat Jul 9 17:30:43 UTC 2005


On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:23:26 CDT, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" said:

> Please prove that Inclusive Namespace roots put name resolution at risk.

You did it yourself, a few paragraphs later...

> Please post a link or give an example. If you mean .BIZ, I would agree, it was
> hijacked, but by ICANN, not by any Inclusive Roots. It belonged to AtlanticRoot
> and ICANN deliberatly created a collision. Collisions cause instability and the
> biggest one was caused by ICANN.

So AtlanticRoot created a .BIZ, and (presumably) guaranteed to include everything
ICANN had - and then ICANN created a conflicting .BIZ, and resolution of .BIZ
named was placed at risk.

As you were saying?
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