You puny creatures do not grasp my fiendish plan! Victory, your name is Plankton! <squelch> Well this sucks. > -----Original Message----- > From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:12 PM > To: Brian E Carpenter; william(at)elan.net > Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Multinational Internet or Balkanization? > > Dear Brian, > I am afraid you do not grasp yet what it represents for the > Internet architecture. > http://www.circleid.com/posts/chinas_new_domain_names_lost_in_ > translation > > At 11:44 02/03/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote:... > >>Ignore China? > > > >No, that would be foolish. > > > >We automatically ignore any pseudo-TLD that only exists > within a walled > >garden, because it is simply invisible outside. > > The walled garden concept does not apply here. This an open > garden, but only because the IETF technology has not > documented the appropriate walls. It is either to evaluate > that they are not necessary under certain conditions or to > offer a walling fitting the need. > > >It isn't part of the global Internet. If it appears in any > way outside > >the walled garden, it is meaningless. > >I think there are a number of examples of this already. > > > >IMHO, what we *should* do is think about how the related requirement > >can be properly defined and how it can be satisfied in the global > >Internet. > > Correct. But this SHOULD stands for 20 years. The ICANN ICP-3 > document explicitly asked for experimentation in that area > (using a John Klensin's class oriented suggestion which > cannot scale, but goes in the proper direction). > > Architecture-discuss, RFC 3066 Bis saga, reactions to the > Chinese case confirm the IETF is not ready for this yet. The > way IETF works well is in maintaining, not in innovating (it > can then be used obliging to protect the world from its > errore, all the more when in affects IANA). What China timely > publishes today is a basic feature of the International > Network: externets. I suggest we leave the concept mature as > a grassroots effort. Just refraining from hurting it. When > the result has been experimented, like for other system, the > IAB will be able to stabilise it and the IETF to maintain it. > jfc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf