Re: [ga-roots] response

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 06:57 PM 5/28/01 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>Response to Mueller's:
> > Analysis of the Crispin Internet-draft.
>
>Unfortunately, Mueller apparently did not actually read the draft,
>so it is hard to respond.  However, to correct a couple of inaccuracies:
>
> > The draft is based on two assumptions, both easily questioned.
> >
[...]
>conclusion: ICANN *cannot* approve multiple roots.  Indeed, as a matter
>of policy, ICANN must do everything it can to discourage them, which
>implies that ICANN must never give any credence to TLDs that were
>developed through alternate roots, since such acknowledgement would
>simply encourage the proliferation of alternate roots and alternated
>TLDs.

What a load of hooey. Jon Postel of the IANA *ENCOURAGED* the first 
alt.root as a training ground for the Draft Postel applicants. It was a 
testbed/proof-of-concept for the inclusion of new TLDs into the IANA root. 
The alt.root was never supposed to survive past October 1996, when the IANA 
applicants were supposed to be put into the IANA root. Problem solved, and 
the alt.root goes bye-bye.

But, of course, the whole Internet Community got screwed by the IAHC, and 
those working on Draft Postel kept their root going. After Kashpureff blew 
himself out of the game at the Dec 1996 newdom BOF, Denninger formed eDNS 
on the now-censored iahc-discuss mailing list. Quite a consensus for the 
IAHC/gTLD-MOU crowd - to have an alt.root created in their midst as a 
direct result of the bogus gTLD-MOU. And what did the IAHC do when faced 
with this consensus? They ignored it and censored the web site mailing list 
archive instead.

So, of course, DoC steps in, tosses the gTLD-MOU in the trash where it 
belongs, and forms ICANN. In the meantime, the Internet community is 
getting really pissed off. As a result of the continued lack of access to 
the legacy root, more folk step up to the plate and form their own 
alt.roots. And it will continue ad infinitum until those behind the legacy 
root get a clue.

Of course, the spineless, and gutless thing to do in this situation is 
"never give any credence to TLDs that were developed through alternate 
roots". Never admit your mistakes, and steamroller over the internet 
community as a grand dictator. I have to say that Kent's been totally 
consistent throughout, and the resulting damage is now in the $$$billions.

One last thing. ICANN have a contract to fulfill the IANA function. Since 
IANA used the first alt.root as a test-bed, it's now ICANN's job to fix 
this mess. Routing around the ICANN root (a single-point-of-failure), the 
Internet community has already spoken.


Best Regards,

Simon

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