Re: [icann-europe] .kids or .kids.us?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jeanette and all

Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

> On 5 Jul 2001, at 0:35, Marc Schneiders wrote:
>
> > >
> > > >It is no problem to switch to an other DNS-Root, as shown by all
> > > >those independant guys, they are still able to resolve all that
> > > >"USA-can" Domains they want to be able to, plus their own ones.
> > >
> > > Except for the enormous incredible inertia brought in by all those
> > > machines which are configured to use the current root.
> > >
> > > Face it: The only way to get "the internet" to turn away from the
> > > current set of root servers is to shut them down.
> >
> > If I may say so, in the spirit of the original Europa story, you
> > referred to earlier: this is Bull sh*t. Most people resolve over their
> > ISP's nameservers. If these (or a substantial number of them) change,
> > then something happens. New.NET understands this.
>
> I think the problem is less of a technical but of an administrative or political nature.

As an administrative type I can understand your seeing it this way.  However
it really is strictly a technical issue, none the less...

> You
> don't need the USG or ICANN to watch over the root. However, you need a body that
> prevents collisions.

  This WAS a possibility for ICANN to serve in this role.  However after MDR
and the decision by the ICANN BoD to introduce already known operational
gTLD (.BIZ and .INFO) it seems that the present form of ICANN would not
be such a body.

> I don't find New.NET's market based approach really convincing.

  I don't either YET!  But with 16M registrants thus far it is certainly one
market based approach that is becoming convincing very quickly.

>
> Where is the model, where is the charter that would constitute such a coordinative
> body? And how could such a charter rule out that the new body wouldn't end up in
> ICANN version 2?
>
> jeanette
> > --
> > Marc Schneiders
> > marc@j.root-servers.orsc (Roeland Meyer can send mail to me.)
> >
> >
> >
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