Re: [ga] China to launch root domain name server

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kidsearch wrote:
> If other countries start to adopt similar systems it is. Personally not 
> a techie so don't know the harm a fractured internet might do from a 
> technical standpoint.

The issue is consistency, not singularity.

For example, consider how many different ways you can look up a name and 
find a telephone number - there are white pages, yellow pages, personal 
directories, 411 services, DVD databases, websites, even word of mouth.

Yet the telephone system does not collapse - the results you get are 
generally consistent and the error rate is low enough to be tolerated.

If any source were consistently bad, you would stop using it.

DNS roots are the same way - we want consistency.  But singularity of 
roots is not necessary.

The issue should be "what is consistency?" - for example, is the fact 
that there might be boutique TLDs that are found in some roots and not 
in others a kind of pathology, is it a healthy sign of new ideas that 
are struggling to rise from boutique status to being the kind of TLD 
that every root will want to publish in its portfolio?

		--karl--