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Re: Revisiting - Re: Now: Next Generation Domains and DNS -- Was: Re: No More Central Authority: Not NSI/ICAN! Not ORSC!

Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Tue, 06 August 2002 21:33 UTC

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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:26:23 -0700
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
Subject: Re: Revisiting - Re: Now: Next Generation Domains and DNS -- Was: Re: No More Central Authority: Not NSI/ICAN! Not ORSC!
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>, Internet Technical Community <ietf@ietf.org>
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This confusion in the public discussion has been persistent.  We really do 
need to use two different terms.

One is multiple name spaces.

The other is multiple servers.

d/
At 02:00 PM 8/6/2002 -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
>At 03:13 PM 8/6/2002 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>Perhaps having multiple roots *with identical information* would be 
>>stable and
>>workable, but that requirement inherently negates the motivation for having
>>multiple roots.
>
>from that perspective, we have multiple roots now...
>
>As you say, what is being asked for is multiple roots with different and 
>uncoordinated information.

>----------

Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com>
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