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

["Stephen Sprunk" <[e-mail]>]

Thus spake <"Mohsen BANAN"@mail.intra.cnri.reston.va>;
<[e-mail]>
> Good!
>
> After many years, the Internet technical
> community (save ICANN and IETF cult's chiefs)
> has now arrived to the general recognition
> that the concept of parallel root server clusters
> are in fact practical, workable, stable and democratic.

The "Internet technical community" has decided no such thing.

Perhaps having multiple roots *with identical information* would be stable and
workable, but that requirement inherently negates the motivation for having
multiple roots.

> Most notably, The DNS Notation Backwardsness.

You'll note that JANET originally used the notation you refer to as "forwards"
and it was decided that was a bad idea, and they joined the "backwards" notation
crowd.

> From a historic perspective it is worthwhile noting that
> shortly after Bob Allisat suggested that the IETF build
> on the concepts that I had introduced, he was banned from
> the IETF mailing list by the then IETF Chair, Fred Baker.

Fred banned him at popular request, as with Jim Fleming.

> r1:org.ietf.www
> www.ietf.org.r1

Who will distribute root selector information?  That entity then becomes another
root which *someone* must control to avoid collisions.  Wait, here you describe
it:

> Something like part of ICANN can be considered the
> consortium of Root-Server Cluster operators which
> can accommodate distribution of the generally static
> information needed for smooth operation of what I
> like to call Next Generation DNS.

Oh great, now we re-create ICANN all over again to manage -- get this -- the
root!  As if they don't do that miserably today.

> The likes of Bob Allisat want to empower the user.

No.  Bob Allisat has an agenda to disrupt legitimate work, and he uses his
"power to the people" message to disguise it.

> And, the Network must remain stable and reliable.

Telling 300M (and growing) internet users that Amazon.com has suddenly become
nsi:com.amazon is not the paragon of reliability or user-friendliness.

> Because this idea centers around selection of the
> root-server by user's software, creation of these
> peer universes is outside of any particular
> authority.

Users do not care who runs the root.  Users, by and large, do not know the root
even exists!  The only people who want "multiple roots" are the people that want
to *run* these alternate roots.

S