Re: Useful Comments Re: DNSO process and Drafts submitted to ICANN

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

John B. Reynolds a écrit:

> How would this give control to ORSC?  

Alright, perhaps my reaction was slightly exaggerated. Let's just say it's
strictly in their interest, to the direct detriment of other interests, my
own for example.

> Every domain name holder directly or
> indirectly administers a DNS zone file.  Are you sure you're not 
> confusing "DNS zone" with "root zone"?

No, the domain holders don't administer zone files. That's done by the ISPs
and the layers above them in the hierarchy. My name isn't in my ISP's
permissions file for changing RRs. I have no control over the MX records, or
the CNAME aliases, or who is the secondary NS, or anything else to do with
the zone files. I've been reading the BIND manual in my spare time. You
can't kid me.

This suggestion of a leader of ISPs and the layers above them
disenfranchises simple domain holders like me, and the layers below in the
tree. It's right in line with Einar Stefferud's former insistence that
connectivity providers represent the users: a blatant misrepresentation of
the facts, which are that the users, as pure consumers who gain nothing by
increased costs up and down the hierarchy, are not represented by anyone in
that hierarchy.

But enough. Neither Einar Stefferud, nor Kent Crispin, nor Michael Heltzer,
nor Dennis Jennings, nor anyone else is going to run the DNSO to the
disadvantage of myself and people like me. Not so long as I can still speak
and write and send e-mail messages.