Re: [ga] Cyberspace Security and the Root(s)

[steinle@smartvia.de]

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From: "Allan Liska" <allan@allan.org>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Cyberspace Security and the Root(s)


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> Hello DannyYounger,
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> Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 3:31:38 PM, you wrote:
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> Dcc> Doesn't this seem to argue against the concept of the desirability of
a
> Dcc> single root?  From strictly a security perspective, can someone
sufficiently
> Dcc> knowledgable advise as to which is better -- having a single root or
having
> Dcc> multiple roots?
>
> A single root is infinitely more secure than multiple roots.  The
> primary goal of information security is to maintain the integrity of
> information.  Having multiple roots makes it much more difficult to
> maintain the integrity of the information -- the root namespace.  Just
> as a company would not have multiple customer databases, a court
> system would not keep multiple criminal records or a doctor would not
> keep multiple records for a patient.

a .com address is keeps the same information regardless of the root.
there are problems ("multiple databases") with .info, .biz, .museum, .name,
.pro

simon
http://www.steinle.law.pro
http://www.nic.pro


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