ITU and BIND configs (Re: [ga] GA position on Verisign contract)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 11:45 29/03/2001 +0200, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
>This is why there is no other solution than:
>-  iCANN incorporating as the association of the national NICs (ccTLD, IP 
>addressing, local/private TLD managing facilities, internet community 
>services, etc...) and gTLDs at a lower degree.
>- that association requesting the UN NGO status.

heaven help us.
The alternative to a private-sector ICANN is the ITU, not a new UN body.

>I note that the USG legitimacy (as per Hans Klein at least) over the 
>Internet comes from two points:
>-  the IP addressing scheme the international and social complexity and 
>technical correlations of which are such that it is definitly an issue for 
>the ITU/T
>-  a missing (?) loop in the current BIND version that anyone may add, so 
>the root may be loaded as several root-file subsets. Once these may 10 
>lines of code aree added the unicity of the root is preserved but the 
>multiplicity of its origines is built-in. The role of the iCANN is then to 
>make sure (according to its equal treatment to all charter) that all the 
>subsets are presented in a proper format and there is no TLD naming 
>conflicts. All the current work with UDRP, Registrars and new TLD is QA by 
>a proheminent body: proposing solutions, control, label for the market to 
>better chose and be served.

this is just plain silly. What does one do when those sources conflict?
as new.net has demonstrated, they WILL conflict, unless one has a governing 
body that ensures they don't. And if so - what is the improvement?

btw, it is rather obvious that you have not seen the configuration files of 
BIND; it does not work the way you think it does.

>In a nutshell, iCANN is not to "protect" us, but to serve us.

on that point, we agree.

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
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Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

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