[LINK] alternative DNS root clients
Kim Davies
kim at cynosure.com.au
Mon Mar 19 05:12:44 AEDT 2012
On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
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> Hmmm..., which is why I was wondering whether you could use several root DNS alternatives.
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> Also, if enough people move to an alternative then it will become the standard. Of course it will probably be subject to significant political pressure just like our current system.
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> What we have now is an indication of where we're going. Why shouldn't we look at alternatives? If nothing else it might just pressure ICANN to do something about it or the UN. The first is unlikely, the second worrying.
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> When the US government can, without due process, confiscate the domain names of 80,000 web sites and put up notices declaring the websites have been involved in child porn, what do we do about it? Nothing?
I think it is worth noting these cases have had nothing to do with the root zone. These confiscations and actions have happened to registrations lower down the DNS tree. The root zone itself only lists the authoritative name servers for the TLDs themselves, and not delegations further down the tree.
The net effect is if you wanted to create an alternate DNS mechanism to prevent the seizure of say, a .COM domain, then it is the .COM zone — not the root zone — you'd need to replicate and manage. At around 100,000,000 entries, I am not sure that would be a simple task.
kim
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