Re: Statements against new.net?

[Simon Higgs]

At 01:23 PM 3/13/01 -0500, you wrote:

> To be
> precise, what is your response to this, the second paragraph of the
> document?
>
>    Put simply, deploying multiple public DNS roots would raise a very
>    strong possibility that users of different ISPs who click on the same
>    link on a web page could end up at different destinations, against
>    the will of the web page designers.
Here it is, a proposed supplement to RFC2826:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-root-defs-00.txt

It's called "cat herding". :-) The short answer is that there's a far 
better chance of coordinating the alt.roots into a single unified root, 
than suffering the consequences of a permanent and very real root 
fragmentation by ignoring them.



Best Regards,

Simon

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DNS is not a sacred cow that cannot be replaced by something better.