Re: [dnsext] draft-diao-aip-dns

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 03:12:38PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> The I-D does not split the DNS at all. It plays with words by
> pretending it will allow several roots but this is not true. Instead,
> it creates a super-root (the one which will allocate the AIPs, the .A
> and .B in the examples) and therefore just displaces the (real)
> problems to the super-root.

I completely agree, and I think that issue is the fundamental problem
with the draft.

We do not need a single root for some political or organizational
reason; lots of things get along without that.  But the DNS is a tree
in the mathematical sense.  It is _incoherent_ to say that you can
have multiple roots in such a tree.  If you have multiple roots, that
just means that you're not yet at the root, properly described.
You're merely at an apex.

Some of the draft is hard to understand because its prose needs work;
that is a mere matter of editing.  But a portion of the draft will
never be possible to understand, because it is trying to hide the
fundamental confusion at its core.  A muddled idea can never be clear,
even once it is clear how muddled the idea is.

Best regards,

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
ajs@anvilwalrusden.com
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