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Re: proposed government regulation of .za namespace

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sat May 25 16:16:28 2002

On Sat, 25 May 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> but semi-clued governments and semi-clued folk in general seem to
> be attracted to the domain name space.  i suspect it is one of
> those areas that appear simpler, more powerful, and more lucrative
> than they actually are.  running a cctld well is a major pita with
> no thanks and thin rewards.

The net worked before DNS existed, and could work after DNS.  If DNS
serves no other purpose than to keep semi-clued governments and semi-
clued folks in general distracted from messing with things which could
really break the net, its good.

I'm more concerned about well-meaning people and Secure-BGP than DNS.





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