Turkey has switched Root-Servers

Sam Hayes Merritt, III sam at themerritts.org
Tue Sep 27 20:49:17 UTC 2005



> Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>> I'm confused by the reasoning behind this public-root (alternate root)
>> problem... It seems to me (minus crazy-pills of course) that there is no
>> way for it to work, ever. So why keep trying to push it and break other
>> things along the way?

> No wonder that some people try a Public-Root that is independent but 
> compatible to ICANNs root. They do it since about 1995. They never 
> stopped. The name changed. The players mostly did not. With every new 
> version of this Public-Root compared to the Monopoly-Root, the number of 
> players gets more. The number of customers gets more.

Aww, thats cute.

While I'm sure you've read RFC 2826 and disagree completely with it, what 
happens if some other schmoe starts public-root2 and duplicates some of 
your TLD. Then you have different users resolving the same hosts ending 
up at different destinations.

There has to be 1 globally unique root. ICANN is currently it. Sorry.


sam



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