Re: [wg-c] Re: multiple_roots

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:48 AM 8/31/99 , Karl Auerbach wrote:
>The truth of the matter is that there is no harm in multiple roots.  They
>are merely the portal to a suite of TLDs.

There is no harm to independently run name spaces?

There is no harm in failing to have a name resolve to the (correct) IP addres?

What a curious view.

>You are mixing the concept of address (phone numbers/ip-addresses) with
>the concept of the lookup key (the callee's name, the dns name.).

And YOU are misunderstanding the role of domain names in the modern 
Internet.  Domain names, not IP addresses, are the user's equivalent to 
telephone numbers.

If you doubt that, turn off the DNS for any random ISP and watch how 
quickly user's react.

d/

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