Re: Verisign's land grab

From: Richard J. Sexton (richard_at_vrx.news)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:02:35 GMT

In article <aRXdb.85$pd.49@news.level3.com>,
Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
>In article <HLu1tK.2s4@T-FCN.Net>,
>Richard J. Sexton (At work) <richard@vrx.news> wrote:
>>In article <PxCcb.42$pd.0@news.level3.com>,
>>Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
>>>In article <HLrsDr.HCv@T-FCN.Net>,
>>>Richard J. Sexton (At work) <richard@vrx.news> wrote:
>>>>Even if you call this something other than anarchy the point remains the
>>>>dns could have been administered like this (not, uh, the way it is
>>>>administered now).
>>>
>>>But would you want it to? Do you really want DNS to have the analogy to
>>>"Sorry, my ISP doesn't carry alt.whatever"? One reason that email and the
>>>web work as well as they do is because we all share a common,
>>>well-organized naming system.
>>
>>I was referring to the organizational structure not content of the DNS.
>>
>>Obviously universal addressability is a desired goal.
>
>And that was my point. I don't think that goal can be achieved with
>Usenet-like anarchy. Even if all the entities are trying to produce
>consistent content, how can they be sure if there's no central list of the
>correct delegations?

There's a difference between "no central list" and decentralized
management of the root zone.

>Anarchy is OK for Usenet because it's not a critical resource. There are
>inconsistencies, but they don't cause any harm.

Theere are inconsistancies in the DNS right now; they
don't cause any harm either. 

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