Re: [wg-review] dndef, 9

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Miles B. Whitener wrote:

> 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).

They'd be truly short-sighted if they didn't.  If they were to prove so 
short-sighted... maybe they shouldn't be in such a responsibility-laden 
position.

>  My main point is that the existing Internet is a particular
> physical manifestation that might or might not prevail into the
> future.  

It's a pretty convenient one though, don't you think.  Pretty hard to 
re-educate everybody very quickly...  I'll bet it'll be here for some 
time to come.

> And, more important, any presumption that the present
> DNS will remain the dominant naming mechanism on the public
> networks is by no means assured.  

Again, this may be a future concern, but it's not all that valid or 
relevant at this point.

> 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.  

Control of the root domain is a technical matter and should not spill 
over into policy.  ICANN has done (practically) nothing in the technical 
realm.

> 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.

Maybe in *some* markets, not all.  Certainly not in the world market at 
this point.  Too much has already gone into the existing system to 
easily change it overnight.  Perhaps, 20 years from now this would be a 
valid concern... I don't think it is now (imho).


Sotiris Sotiropoulos
       Hermes Network, Inc.


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