Re: [ga] More on Sitefinder suspension

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:06:40PM -0700,
 Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 45 lines which said:

> For example, consider the IAB/ICANN statement about competing roots
> - those reports claimed that the sky would fall, the seas would
> boil, and hell would freeze if competing roots were allowed.

This is not true. Anyone can check from:

http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-3.htm
RFC 2826

that ICANN or IAB never said so.

> Yet competing roots have been here and working for years and years -
> and the net still works.

Of course, "competing roots" are just a small set of local experiments
used by the maintainer and a few pals. No wonder it works: almost
nobody uses them.

I use Open-RSC at home because I love to play with new toys. Sure, it
works. It directs me to the right name server, except for a few ccTLD
that are not very important to me. Exactly like ICANN does. Read
again: exactly like ICANN does.

There is no reason to use a competing root, they provide exactly the
same service. All the other dummy TLDs that they are supposed to allow
either does not work at all (most TLD in Open-RSC have not *one* name
server running) or are useless since they never appear in email
addresses, in HTML links, etc.

Saying that "competing roots" work is exactly like saying that true
direct democracy works because you run your commune that way: it does
not mean it can work for the whole Internet.