Re: [wg-review] dndef, 9

["Miles B. Whitener" <mbw@i-theta.com>]

Sotiris,
 The state does not own the Internet infrastructure, at least not
all of it. And there are a lot of nations involved here.  Any
influence little groups like ours has is at the pleasure of the
owners (not that this is a bad policy on their part -- they are
wise to allow users to have some influence).
 My main point is that the existing Internet is a particular
physical manifestation that might or might not prevail into the
future.  And, more important, any presumption that the present
DNS will remain the dominant naming mechanism on the public
networks is by no means assured.  And that COM, NET, ORG and
others are only figments of the current DNS's imagination.  And
that the issuance of TLDs requires assessing who controls the
root domain.  And that subdomains under TLDs, and subdomains
under those subdomains, will be governed according to the
delegation agreements from parent domain holder to child domain
registrant.  And that there's competition at every level except
for who owns the root, and there's competition even there, if
TPTB get too uppity, because DNS itself is optional, if you
consider how fast new protocols can catch fire in the market.
 If the others like, lets take this off the list.
  mbw

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sotiropoulos" <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
To: "Miles B. Whitener" <mbw@i-theta.com>
Cc: "Eric Dierker" <ERIC@HI-TEK.COM>; "review"
<wg-review@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [wg-review] dndef, 9


>
>
> 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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