Re: a new DNS root for the world?

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

Sam Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > "JFC" == JFC (Jefsey) Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> writes:
>
>
>     JFC> On 09:53 03/10/2005, Brian E Carpenter said:
>     >> JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
>     >>> http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf
>     >>> Comments welcome. Is it to be understood as an alt-root? or is
>     >>> it a legitimate hower single operator?
>     >>  Neither. .gprs appears to be a private pseudo-TLD inside a
>     >> walled garden for GPRS operators. It doesn't have anything to
>     >> do with the Internet's namespace. .3gppnetwork.org appears to
>     >> be a perfectly normal Internet 2LD.
>
>     JFC> Dear Brian, I have difficulty in understanding this. You talk
>     JFC> of "Internet's name space". I feel difficult to reconcile
>     JFC> this with an NGN approach. Also with the Internet as the
>     JFC> network of the networks of different technologies? IMHO there
>
>
> You know, I have to agree with Jefsey here, at least up to this point.
> I was not able to understand the rest of the message.  But his point
> is valid: walled gardens will leak.  

What may leak are attempts to resolve .gprs names in the Internet,
which will generate bogus queries to a root server. I don't think
this is a good thing, obviously. But it isn't catastrophic.

    Brian


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