Re: [ga] Good News

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

On 09:46 30/11/01, Pascal Bernhard - cube said:
>Jefsey brought once the concept of coopetitive structures. I
>understand this as competitive root networks which share the same
>root file.

this is reality: the different root are actually in competition on a 
commercial basis. But their common interest is to also cooperate to the 
satisfaction of the users, to reduce TLD squatting and collisions, to 
provide user education, to support R&D etc.

But actually the root concept is quite outdated. The root of a system is 
its interconnection with a more general system. The roots on the internet 
(com, net, org) were the interconections with other networks (TymCom of 
Tymnet, Telenet, other organizations). Now the Internet (.arpa) has 
replaced Tymnet as the interconnecting network there no more raison d'être 
in here. There is a need of a root only in the interconnected local 
stations and extranets. What is qualified as a "root" by ICP-3 is the 
distributed network open directory. The software works OK because its 
concepts are more open than the minds of its worshipers but the wording and 
the conceptual usage are wrong (that is if your motivation is not only to 
make money on wrong premises). You do not need to use the USG root system 
to operate properly on the Internet.

Jefsey



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