Re: [wg-review] dndef, 9

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Miles B. Whitener wrote:

> Sotiris,
>  I don't see how your analogy applies.  

Let's walk through it together.

> What I am saying is like
> this: if I own a physical network (here, the Internet), then I
> can dictate, generally, how services (here, DNS, as run on port
> 53) are to be used.  

If the State owns the highway, they can tell you what height your 
vehicle can be to use it (due to overpasses etc..).  The State can also 
tell you what type of vehicles they want driven on it (i.e. ones that 
don't pollute, hence, emission controls).  The State can also tell you 
how fast you can drive, and can give you speeding tickets if you disobey. 

BUT the State cannot tell you which car (in a perfectly legitimate car 
market) you can or cannot buy. 

> And if I make an agreement with somebody to
> _delegate_ the management of something to them, then the T&C of
> the agreement will dominate, under the law of the nation.

When your highway *must* pass through other people's 
Counties/Jurisdictions, would you not say that they had some *right* in 
the "delegation" of your disposition (after all, you *want* it to pass 
through their territory, don't you?)


Sotiris Sotiropoulos
       Hermes Network, Inc.

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