Re: [ga] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf

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

Kent and all assembly members,

Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:59:59PM -0400, L Gallegos wrote:
> > Once more, Kent. The DNS is singular.  Roots are not.  Roots are not
> > the name space.  DNS is.  Most of the kids in school can think that
> > through.
>
> The technical means by which the singularity of DNS is
> enforced is through the use of a single root (currently under the
> authority of the USG).  The is explicit in the design of dns; it has
> been reiterated many times.

  The DNS is flexible and was designed to be so.  Hence it is
currently a single Root structure, but it has been shown
and proven that such a situation is not necessarily static or
will.should remain so.  This has been reiterated many times.

>
>
> Please note that it is the use of alternate roots and TLDs that is the
> fundamental problem: if you use alternate roots with alternate TLDs you
> can *never* be sure that you won't get polluted by someone else's
> alternate root and TLD of the same name -- they don't have to tell you
> about it; you don't have to know that it exists; it doesn't have to be
> publically advertised.

  To a degree this is true.  But only because "Competitive Roots"
are not as mature as the "Legacy Roots".  Yet they exist, they are
growing, and they are becoming more numerous.  The reliability
factor to which you mention is arguable and has been argued
before.  However it has been shown that in some cases
such as with ORSC, other Roots structures are both inclusive
of existing "Legacy Roots" and are proven to be more reliable.

>  The conflict Jefsey describes with the two
> versions of .biz exists independent of whether one of them is in the
> real root -- two alternate root zones that don't know about each other
> have precisely the same problem; there is no distinguishing
> characteristic of the real root that sets it apart.

  Real Root?  Which is the "Real Root"?  Cooperation or lack there
of in the case that ICANN purports to wish to propose is the culprit
for this occurring, not Atlantic Roots .BIZ which is not even a root
structure but a Registry for a .BIZ TLD.  So in the future please
try to get your terminology correct so as not to be misleading.

>
>
> To put it in other words, if you use a .biz in an alternate root, you
> run the risk of colliding with someone who, deliberately or
> accidentally, sets up a .biz in another alternate root, and they don't
> have to tell you about it.

  Indeed this is true.  And this would be the fault of ICANN should
their "Version" of .BIZ be accepted.

>  The only way you can guarantee to avoid
> such conflicts is to avoid using alternate roots.

  No cooperative root structures, shared root structures, or multiple
root structures are a few other ways by which collisions can be avoided
with TLD's.

>
>
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> Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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Regards,

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