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RE: Turkey has switched Root-Servers
From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf () tndh net>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:05:57 -0700
Tony Li wrote:
.com is an abomination, as are the other gTLDs to a lesser extent. .gov, .mil, .edu, .info, and .biz need to be shifted under .us immediately, and everyone under .com, .net, and .org needs to be gradually moved under the appropriate part of the real DNS tree. I can live with .int continuing on, but only because no better solution immediately comes to mind.Actually, I think you've got it backwards. .us and all of the other country-specific TLDs are the last vestiges of nationalism. The Internet is only the second piece of truly global infrastructure. As a key component in the ongoing trend towards a unified global administration, we should do what we can to encourage cooperation and equality across borders, not intensify their differences.
In general I agree with you. The primary exception being that if national political interests want to press for local rules about specific strings (like XXX) then those national interests belong in their designated part of the name space. Polluting the global space with nationally inconsistent rules about use will not help. Tony
Current thread:
- Re: j19n, (continued)
- Why use ccTLDs? [was: Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers] Steve Gibbard (Sep 27)
- Re: Why use ccTLDs? Edward Lewis (Sep 28)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 27)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Stephane Bortzmeyer (Sep 28)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 28)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Stephane Bortzmeyer (Sep 28)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Tony Li (Sep 28)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 28)
- RE: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Tony Hain (Sep 28)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Tony Li (Sep 28)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Peter Dambier (Sep 29)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Alexander Koch (Sep 29)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Joseph S D Yao (Sep 29)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Peter Dambier (Sep 29)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 29)
- [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Randy Bush (Sep 29)
- Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Tony Li (Sep 29)
- Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere (Sep 29)
- Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers Paul Vixie (Sep 27)