On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:31:48AM -0400, Francois Menard <francois@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 39 lines which said: > However, there is more generality to my question ... I need a quick > rundown of the latest thinking (RFCs, ID's, IESG & IAB directives, IRTF > experiments) regarding: > > 1) distributed multiple roots I would certainly be interested in any scientific and technical papers about this issue. This is a very interesting and challenging problem. But I think that we can safely say that you canNOT have multiple roots IF you want to keep the present semantics of the DNS. (For instance, the current semantics is "If I send an email to sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, it will arrive in the same malibox, irrespective of my current email provider". See http://www.finee.com/travel_tld.htm.) It is not a limit of the current protocols. It is a limit forced upon us by the requirments: if you want the above semantics for sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, you canNOT have multiple roots, because something (the root) will have to decide who manages ".travel". Otherwise, you will not arrive in Paris for the next IETF :-) [You can compare with distributed file systems or distributed databases: you typically have to give in some requirments.] _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf