The Fortune 10,000 .COM Cluster

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net>]

Another place that .COM Clusters can be useful
is when "censorship" is desired. One can imagine
deploying a .COM Cluster that only had the Fortune
10,000 COMpany names in the data base.

Large companies could then point their name servers
to this cluster and their CEOs could sleep better at
night knowing that they are only providing name
resolution services for the 10,000 companies "approved"
by the service provider of the Fortune 10,000 .COM Cluster.

The 10,000 owners of the <SLD>.COM names would
of course be asked for a registration fee to be listed
among this elite group. ATT.COM would likely be one
of the obvious candidates to be entered and could also
be a user of this .COM Cluster. This would help prevent
Affirmative Action and EEO issues from arising, because
the company would be pro-actively preventing employees
from doing or seeing things that are not part of the work
place.

The technology is evolving to be able to provide this
type of "service". With millions of names in .COM, it
is likely that sub-set services may have some merit.
If companies are willing to pay for these services, then
other companies will likely call upon their technical
people to make it happen. It is important that IETF
members understand what is possible. Then they can
advise their companies properly.

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI