Re: Shared TLD's? Dead Idea. (Re: newdom BOF)

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

Bob Allisat wrote:
>  Shared TLD's are a dead issue.
>  The technical problems of even
>  a handful of generic, non-exclusive
>  Top Level Domains killed that idea
>  months ago. Why do you think the
>  Shared Domain mailing list sunk
>  into the mire? It is an utterly
>  unworkable, completely disasterous
>  idea. 


   Excuse me, that's really quite misleading:
	1) the list is not silent because of difficulty, but of triviality
	2) I announced a toy version of a server and client
some months ago, and made them available to all.
	3) I'm working quietly on a formalizable specification
of a harder problem, that of a fault-tolerant/safety-critical
shared registry, the first part of which has been available for months
	4) I can think of at least three families of solution,
one of which I implemented out of interest, one which uses
proprietary DBMSs,and one which requires only a non-shared registry
program conected to an authenticating web server and made available
to other organizations, and 
	5) I'm working on the latter at a very low priority.

  And shared/exclusive is a false dichotomy: a closely-held domain
may well want to franchise access for a price to a whole community
of ISPs.

--dave
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