At 00:15 03/01/2006, John Levine wrote:
> NeuStar is the ".us" Registy and has entered into an open root > agreement with the GSMA, supporting the ".gprs" TLD. That the IETF > pays to host a link to them may certainly be perceived as a > political signal. Oh, no, not this again. Neustar's .gprs TLD exists only on a special purpose private network disjoint from the public Internet, used for GSM signalling and invisible to anyone who doesn't run a GSM phone switch.
Dear John, do you agree I ask your head the day I can reach ".gprs" names from my PC?
It is not the network that GSM phone users see when they use web or mail services over their phones. I don't care what names the GSMA uses on their private network, and I don't see any reason that anyone else would, either.
ICANN has suggested the IETF to run a testbed on this kind of evolution. It even suggested to use classes as per the adequate proposition of John Klensin. The IETF prefered not to.
There may be reasons not to like Neustar, but the fact that they happen to provide network infrastructure to phone companies is not one of them.
No reason to dislike NeuStar. They introduce competition where there is none. IMHO this is a blessing for the native Internet and a challenge for the international network and the IGF. What is dangerous is to consider all this neutral.
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