Re: [dnsext] BOF on variants for ICANN San Francisco

[John Levine <[e-mail]>]

>> I suspect I disagree with the above claim.  Specifically, I think I
>> disagree with "well understood".

I think we understand our technical options pretty well, but not what
problem we're expected to solve.

At ICANN you're likely to run into policy types who say (no doubt in
more words) "spare me the mumbo-jumbo, we just want {set of names}
to work the same."

Once you're done gritting your teeth, this is an educational
opportunity to help people understand the large number of moving parts
that have to be synchonized to get the consistent user experience that
is probably the intutive idea of sameness, e.g.:

If users type various names into their web browser, what should they
expect? Always the same page? How about if some pages are different?
How about if one brings up a page, the rest don't? etc.

R's,
John