[ga] a quote from Lynn

[Eric Dierker <eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

"Universal resolvability means the ability to find the same answer to
the same query from anywhere on the public Internet. The position
advocated by New.net relies on the fundamentally erroneous assumption
that universal resolvability is not an important feature of the DNS.

To the contrary, universal resolvability is one of the key design
elements of the DNS. If users perceived that the DNS began to produce
different results in response to the same question, this would seriously
undermine confidence in the reliability of the Internet to users and
potential users around the world."

Yes I take this a little out of context but I do not like the
fundamental position that any system would require only one right answer
to the same question. It sounds like he is saying that users are too
stupid to handle a choice therefor we must not give it to them.  No
rereading his policy paper; it does not sound like it, it is it.

There may be reasons for this policy but to lay it off on the users
being to stupid to make alternating choices between roots is wrong both
technically and morally.

Sincerely,
Eric


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