RE: Structuring the Root

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

On Wednesday, April 22, 1998 6:56 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand[SMTP:Harald.Alvestrand at maxware.no] wrote:
@Did you notice that ZR and CD happen to be the same country?
@CD recently got added (Zaire changed name to Congo Democratic Republic).
@
@If Tanzania has a similar coup and changes to DT (Democratic Tanzania),
@will you shift all your stewardship zones by one?
@

In the approach I propose, there are "slots" and the TLD names
are placed on the slots. TLDs can come and go depending on
the forces in the marketplace. Once a TLD is attached to a slot
it does not change. All TLD labels on slots have to be unique
and a Darwinian system is proposed where new TLDs challenge
the weakest TLDs (no users) for replacement.

In the IPv8 Plan there are 2,048 slots. This is like tracking the
Fortune 500. The goal is to locate the "strongest" TLDs in the
world and assign them to a slot. The G:S number on the slot
determines which part of the IPv8 address space is automatically
delegated to the stewards for that TLD. Here is a current list.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI