RE: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

This is a bit of an artificial situation. When I go opn the road, I use
local access only for the connectivity. I still use MHSC servers for
everything else (DNS, SMTP, Domain login, etc) using PPTP/SSH/etc tunneling.
This is regardless of client-site, conferences, etc. Call me paranoid, but I
don't do corporate mail and connection through systems I don't trust,
without at least a 64-bit encryption tunnel (and I prefer 128-bit w/
1024-bit PKI). I'm not the only one that does this. If I can't punch a
tunnel through it then I don't use that system (I go back to using the
hotel's system or my own dial-up ports back to the office).

IOW, the argument is moot and behind the technology curve. No one can be
forced to use a particular SMTP, or even a specific DNS, server.

As for the second case, sufficiently serious companies deploy their own DNS
resolving servers and those that run serious traffic, also run their own
zone servers. One of my products is such a zone server cluster, minimum
configuration as $12K. I have more than one customer for that product. I
install ORSC root zone by default. Yes, those customers are very well aware
of that. 

This is one of my problems with the NeuStar BIZ TLD, among others, I am now
writing a Java application that  fetches the raw zone files and builds a
master root-zone from the atoms and stuffs it into my CVS repository. Unless
specifically requested by my clients, they will never see the NeuStar BIZ
TLD, as long as Leah stays in business.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Marsh [mailto:marshm@anycast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 6:33 PM
> To: Kent Crispin; List Admin; Thomas Roessler
> Cc: [ga-roots]; icann-europe@fitug.de
> Subject: RE: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga-roots@dnso.org 
> [mailto:owner-ga-roots@dnso.org]On Behalf
> > Of Kent Crispin
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:49 PM
> > To: List Admin; Thomas Roessler
> > Cc: [ga-roots]; icann-europe@fitug.de
> > Subject: Re: [ga-roots] Re: [icann-eu] Letter to Dr. Vint Cerf
> <SNIP>
> > In fact there are numerous other possibilities for sources of
> > contamination.  For example -- I go to a conference and hook up my
> > laptop to the ISP providing connectivity to the conference.  I am
> > required to use their smtp server; it uses some set of roots I never
> > heard of...  Or: My employer uses an ISP under one root 
> zone, I have a
> > personal account at a different ISP.  My ISP decides that 
> it is going to
> > support a new root zone, with a different version of the TLD in
> > question.  Why would an ISP do that? Because it gets a 
> customer request
> > to host a web site in a new TLD?
> >
> <SNIP>
> 
> Right.  So why would ICANN knowingly and willingly create 
> such a situation
> when the TLD is already operational?
> 
> Gene...
> 
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