RE: [ga] Death Struggle in Name Space

["Roberto Gaetano" <ga_chair@hotmail.com>]

Roeland,

> >
> > I don't understand this.
> > How does the Neustar/ICANN .biz change the situation for
> > users/ISPs who chose to "enhance" their settings and point to
> > the alternate roots? Those people will continue seeing the
> > AtlanticRoot .biz, and would not even know that USG has added .biz.
>
>Yes and no, you have to understand the way the Inclusive Root system works,
>currently.


The way it works currently does not matter that much to me.
My point was, and still is, that if the non-ICANN Root System wanted, it 
could easily resolve .biz disregarding the contents of the ICANN Root.


[long explanation snipped]


>What all of the above means is that, if ICANN adds the NeuStar BIZ, then 
>the
>Inclusive Root Zone operators would have to, by their own rulz, 
>specifically
>remove the NueStar entries prior to incorporating the USG root zone kernel.


Exactly.


>Not all of them will do that reliably. This introduces entropy into the
>Inclusive Root system. Unlike cryptographic randomness, entropy is NOT good
>for production systems.
>


That's what I would call "your own tecnical problem".
If somebody will have unreliable information, ISPs will point to the others 
who have.
(incidentally, you have given the best explanation to the reason why almost 
everybody points to the reliable (and consistent) root, not to potentially 
unreliable, although "enhanced", surrogates)


> > The decision would not "destroy" the business: the business
> > will collapse if registrants will massively register in ICANN's
> > .biz and not in AR's .biz, while it will stay healthy if things
> > happen the other way around. It is true that USG should not
> > destroy a business, but should also not be obliged to rescue a
> > business that goes belly up due to competition.
>
>You are missing a connector here. If it can be shown that adding the 
>NeuStar
>BIZ TLD will forseeably have the effect that you mention here (and that is
>very difficult to dispute) then we can establish a causal relationship
>between the addition of the TLD and the effect on ARNI's BIZ. Ergo, the
>simple addition of the NeuStar BIZ TLD, in the DOC root zone, would
>destablize ARNI's BIZ registry. Since DOC is a branch of the USG and ARNI 
>is
>a US company engaged in a lawful business, the USG would be in violation of
>its own Constitution. I might point out, before anyone else does, that the
>USG is already in violation of various other parts of its own Constitution
>[The US has been in a continuous State of Emergency since 1952, with 
>various
>executive over-rides on parts of the US Constitution being applicable
>(Korean War, Viet Nam, Cold War, War on Drugs, etc, old argument, we need
>not go there)].


Well, in this case, it is not even ICANN's problem.
USG will fix it, no point to discuss it further - in particular for those 
who *did not* move to the US in 1960 ;>)

Regards
Roberto


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