RE: [ICANN-EU] meeting esther dyson - a very short report

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 09:47 26/10/2000 +0200, Christian.Ahlert@sowi.uni-giessen.de wrote:
>My question to all the techies on this list: Is this a mere justification
>of the current structure ( a claim to centralized power), or what?

It is intended to be an explanation of how the current technology works, 
and why it has to be that way to continue to work as well as it does today.
Two different net.resources with the same name, where some people see one 
resource and some people see the other, is a failure under the assumptions 
that current Internet software has built into it.
A single root is the only method we know works for keeping that from happening.

Disclaimer: I was part of the group that wrote this. I am biased.

            Harald