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Einar
Stefferud founded Network
Management Associates in 1969 to
provide strategic technical and
policy management advice for
network environments.
He founded First Virtual Holdings
in 1994, which
runs Internet Payment System. His
practice i
ncludes documented
planning for governance
of Internet
infrastructures.
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- Einar
Stefferud
- President
- Network
Management Associates
- mailto:stef@nma.com
- http://www.fv.com
- (c)
1998 by Einar
Stefferud.
- Used
with permission.
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Comments
on the DNS War Situation:
The most salient
aspect of the current DNS War Scene is
that there are no real crises, other than
those of failed expectations of many
parties, including the IAHC/iPOC/ CORE,
ISOC, WIPO, ITU, and IANA, plus all those
people who were turned on by the original
IETF- oriented discussions about how to
expand the gTLD
name space in the DNS ROOT.
Failed
expectations do not give reasonable cause
for crisis behavior. And, there is no
shortage of DNS names at this point, or in
the foreseeable future, though a lot of
people think that the name registration
process should in due course be changed to
be more open.
But, the real
kicker in the current situation resides in
the fact that the DNS ROOT is not actually
controllable by any central authority. All
those local DNS Name Server Resolvers set
their own pointers to their own local
choice of gTLD Root Server, and those
choices are expressed in named.boot files
under local password control. There is no
central authority that can force
all Internet Name Server Resolvers to
point at any centrally designated Official
Root Server.
So, the current
war over who is going to be in singular
control of the selection of gTLD names is
entirely bogus, and can be stopped by an
authoritative decision by the US
Government to "Just Say No" to adding any
new gTLD names to the "Official" Root
Servers currently under US Government
control through
its contract with Network Solutions, Inc.
NOI comments:
http://www.wia.org/pub/stef-dnsnoi-comments.html
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