Re: The view from my window

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Kent,

  Please read below your comments.

Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> Simon Higgs allegedly said:
> >
> > At 12:33 PM -0500 12/26/96, Paul Ezra Kautz wrote:
> >
> > > People are resistant to change - remember how some COM-users feel about
> > > losing their domain? Fortunately, I think the American TLDs (GOV, EDU,
> > > MIL) won't threaten to sue as long as we give them enough time.
> > >
> >
> > This could also be temporarily patched in BIND. All .EDU queries that
> > fail would get .US appended to them and retried.
> 
> Absolute nonesense, Simon.  This requires replacing resolvers all
> across the internet -- something like that simply doesn't happen
> overnight, and simply cannot be done by fiat.

  Fiat?  Excuse me!  Bit dated arn't we?
> 
> > > There is a place for exclusive registration - the second level.
> > >
> >
> > Ah... but the namespace is recursive.
> >
> > "There are no requirements on subdomains of top-level domains beyond
> > the requirements on higher-level domains themselves.  That is, the
> > requirements in this memo are applied recursively." - RFC1591
> 
> However, shared tlds break that model immediately.  So I would rely
> on it too much.

  Good point here.  I think this may be at the crux of problem for
several on this list, myself being one.  So breaking new technical
ground with shared TLDs is virgine territory.  The problem I have
is that there is not even a working test system.  That is why I 
have recomended exclusive TLD's at first and than allow CORE or
IAHC and the registrars to decide jointly weather to go to Shared
TLDs, instead of mandating that up front.  Makes some of the
implimentation
concerns YOU have Kent, dimminished.

Regards,
 
> 
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