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Peter,<br><br>
OK, now I understand. It is not the DNS hierarchy which is the
problem. Or, even the rDNS oot or the various DNS server sets.
<br><br>
Yours is a personal difference with the assignment process which causes
operational issues for you when you migrate.<br><br>
Thank you for your clarification. Perhaps you should approach ICANN
with alternate proposals.<br><br>
Regards.<br><br>
Cutler<br><br>
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At 9/27/2005 11:46 PM +0200, Peter Dambier wrote:<br><br>
Hi James,<br><br>
James R. Cutler wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Peter,<br>
I must have missed something here. <br>
Are there not individual root domains for each ISO-registered country,
not just the US? And, if there are individual root domains for each
ISO-registered country, are they all controlled by the US?<br>
Please explain this in simple words.</blockquote><br>
The country domains obviously were not the right place. That is why<br>
you find organisations, companies and whatever in ".com",
".net" and<br>
".org"<br><br>
I have a ".de" domain but I probably will lose it as soon as I
move to<br>
france. I cannot get a ".eu" domain because of bureaucratic
reasons.<br>
Anyhow I will lose it as soon as I move to Panama. So some 250
domains<br>
are of no use to me. Sooner or later I will end up in ".com",
".net"<br>
or ".org". Right now I dont have the money to bye me a
".com", ".net"<br>
or ".org" domain. That is why I join with people like me
building our<br>
own root and selling toplevel domains to people who cannot afford<br>
bying ICANN for monetarian or religious reasons :)<br><br>
Kind regards,<br>
Peter and Karin<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Thank you.<br>
Cutler<br><br>
t 9/27/2005 10:07 PM +0200, Peter Dambier wrote:<br>
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I'm confused by the reasoning
behind this public-root (alternate root)<br>
problem... It seems to me (minus crazy-pills of course) that there is
no<br>
way for it to work, ever. So why keep trying to push it and break
other<br>
things along the way?</blockquote><br>
Paul Vixie has given very good arguments.<br>
Let me add a design fault:<br>
As more than 80% of all names are registered under '.com' there is no
need<br>
for any other domain.<br>
Ok, let us get rid of all those domains and put them under '.com.<br>
Now there is no more need for '.com' either. Let us get rid of it
and<br>
we have finally got more than 3000 toplevel domains. That is all we
want.<br>
Let me compare Public-Root and ICANNs root:<br>
# IASON ZoneCompiler version 0.0.4<br>
#
SOA(".","2005092401","A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.","NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM.","1800","900","604800","86400").<br>
# lines: 2334, NS: 1380, A: 878, AAAA: 65, SOA:
2, domains: 263 servers: 64<br>
# IASON ZoneCompiler version 0.0.4<br>
#
SOA(".","2005092512","a.public-root.net.","hostmaster.public-root.net.","43200","3600","1209600","14400").<br>
# lines: 11640, NS: 10479, A: 1085, AAAA: 66,
SOA: 2, domains: 3043 servers: 65<br>
The Public-Root has got 3043 domains. ICANNs root has got only 263.<br>
There is a political design problem with ICANNs root. It has not got
enough toplevel domains.<br>
DNS was designed as a tree. It was designed decentralised.<br>
DNS today has degenerated to a flat file like /etc/hosts was.<br>
It is no longer decentralised but stored mostly in a single
registry.<br>
No wonder that some people try a Public-Root that is independent but
compatible<br>
to ICANNs root. They do it since about 1995. They never stopped. The name
changed.<br>
The players mostly did not. With every new version of this Public-Root
compared<br>
to the Monopoly-Root, the number of players gets more. The number of
customers<br>
gets more.<br><br>
Kind regards,<br>
Peter and Karin Dambier<br><br>
-<br>
James R. Cutler<br>
james.cutler@consultant.com<br>
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