Re: [ga-roots] On why the root is not open

["NameCritic" <watch-dog@inreach.com>]

Thank you Harald, but please realize that for some of us this is not
rehashing OLD ideas. The questions are ones you will have to continue to
repost answers to I imagine as new people get involved. Kepp it around and
paste, paste, paste. And again, thank you.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: "Simon Higgs" <simon@higgs.com>
Cc: <ga-roots@dnso.org>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 4:21 AM
Subject: [ga-roots] On why the root is not open


> At 11:32 12.05.2001 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
> >Second misconception. There is no shortage of TLDs. There's an
> >artificially manufactured scarcity. Big difference. Root fracture is a
> >natural consequence of artificial scarcity. The Internet routes around
> >failure. Take away the artificial scarcity, put all the TLDs requested
> >since 1995 into the USG root, and the problem goes away.
>
> Since the participants on this list seem intent on rehashing ALL the old
> arguments no matter what others want, I might as well put up the standard
> response to this one.
>
> TECHNICALLY, the DNS can easily support several hundred names in the root
> zone - because we are doing that now.
> TECHNICALLY, we have grave doubts that it can support a million names in
> the root zone with an adequate stability for the root zone service. (The
> problem is rate of change for stability)
>
> So, we the TECHNICAL people have passed a slip to the POLITICAL/OPERATIVE
> community saying "more than a hundred but less than a million, please".
>
> As .com has proved, an open zone will have more than a million entries.
> So there has to be a rule; some will get it, some will not.
>
> The POLITICAL community, knowing full well that deleting a TLD from the
> root is probably going to be impossible, went through the WG-B process,
and
> came up with the "five to ten" recommendation.
>
> In the same process, there was no consensus for giving "those who thought
> of it first" any preferential treatment in handing out new TLDs. That was
> 2000, not 1997.
>
> Bottom line:
>
> Some rule for who gets into the root must exist. And FCFS was not
accepted.
>
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