On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:39:59PM -0500, Emin Gun Sirer <egs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 99 lines which said: > the name hierarchy and the server hierarchy are intertwined. This > leads to a natural monopoly. Suppose you want a .COM name, but also > want to boycott VeriSign over SiteFinder? You are playing with words. CoDoNS separates name service and name delegation but there is still a monopoly on the name delegation, which is the important stuff. > - With CoDoNS+DNSSEC, the natural namespace monopoly is gone. False. CoDoNS does not magically allow me to register microsoft.com and have it distributed to the world. > Naturally, R1 and R2 will have to cooperate to not issue conflicting > bindings for the same name. That's the problem with most "one namespace, several registries" proposals. There is still a registry to coordinate the so-called "several registries" so you're back to step 1. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf