Re: way out of the DNS problems? (former Re: delegation mechanism, Re: Trees have one root)

[Einar Stefferud <Steflist at thor.nma.com>]

At 3:31 PM -0400 8/2/02, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> % dig . ns | grep 'IN       A' | awk '{print "root@"$1}'
> root at A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> root at D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>
> That's who *REALLY* controls '.'.  I doubt any of them qualify as 
> "Joe Clueless"

Not so;-)...  "." is the total collection of all TLDs in what ORSC 
calls the Inclusive Root.

"." is just an abstraction, and it has no (other) name or management handle.

"." is, indeed, whatever DNS server that people point to with their 
local password controlled TCP/IP set-up panels and /etc files all 
around the Internet.

This is what creates one of the most responsive democratic 
technologies of all time.
I, and all other users of the Internet, get to vote early and often 
for our candidate for "." just as called for in the DNS standards.

And, there is no way that I can see for anyone, Govt or non-Govt, to 
control where Internet users choose to point for "." service.

So, at the bottom line, ICANN and DoC are only dreaming about 
controlling the use of domain names in the Internet.

Cheers...\Stef