[apnic-talk] AE...FM...NR...SZ
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-15nov02.htm
http://www.markletaskforce.org/
http://aspeninstitute.org/c&s/ipp.html
http://www.icann.org/committees/security/
It should be clear that the usual suspects (the I* society) are going to capitalize on the post-9/11 FUD
and advise the U.S. Government that the aging, fragile, legacy root-servers are under attack and can not
handle the load of more TLDs. Now that they have all of their cash cows working the field, they of course
see no reason to have more competition. The three-way play of the *legal community*, the I* society,
and the U.S. Government will be able to cook up whatever story is needed to steer the world down a
path where only selected *privileged* members make it in with the awards going to the insiders already
there, who of course will be the only ones qualified with the gold-plated systems and *years of operational
experience* gained only because they were the only ones allowed to gain that operational experience while
others were denied the right to show what they can do. The game is rigged. Why play in it ? Why be held
hostage by a small group of digerati who are determined to save the world from the Internet they do not
even use ?
There are several alternatives for wiring a new name-space into the DNS. Alternate roots have demonstrated
that it can easily be done. Companies like http://www.New.Net have shown that large numbers of TLDs can
be made available to hundreds of millions of users. The DLD approach shows that people still desire extensions
such as .ONLINE over the short extensions. Another approach would be to have 26 servers each serving on
letter of the alphabet, software can make those not appear to users. Another approach would be to have
13 clusters based on pairs of letters used to sort the TLDs and to balance the load.
AB...CD...EF...GH...IJ...KL...MN...OP...QR...ST...UV...WX...YZ
If all 676 combinations of two-letters were used then maybe the first and last letters of the TLD could be used
to do the sort. COM would be under CM, NET would be under NT, ORG would be under OG, etc.
http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html
http://www.domainsurfer.com/ssearch.cgi?dom=-online.com
Since everyone knows that the "root load" arguments are bogus and pure FUD, it may be more prudent to take
a shorter term approach of using 4 of the open TLDs to sort new TLDs to at least have a place to build the new
name-spaces (the goal afterall).
TLDs that begin with the letters A-E can be managed under .AE to balance the server load
That would result in ARPA.AE and IN-ADDR.ARPA.AE
> > > http://www.uaenic.ae
> > > AE
> > > http://www.dot.fm
> > > FM
> > > http://www.cenpac.net.nr/dns/index.html
> > > NR
> > > http://www.africaonline.co.sz/domreg/
> > > SZ
> > > =====
Considering applicants that were turned away in the last beauty pageant and who did not fit in the basket....
there are only a few in the SZ range. They could easily be wired into the legacy roots as shown here.
http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm
.TEL.SZ
.TRAVEL.SZ
.UNION.SZ
.WAP.SZ
.WEB.SZ
====
None of these kludged approaches of getting wired in someplace change the fact that ultimately an
[SLD].[TLD] owner has 2 nameservers which server that SLD zone. The goal is to find those 2 servers
in a reliable manner. The new 128-bit software can be enhanced to look in several places for a link
to the [SLD].[TLD] servers. Once the TLD cluster is located no roots are needed. The four TLDs
above AE...FM...NR...SZ can be used as back-doors into the root. For people that really still have to
have a domain name that resolves from the legacy root, they of course can add one of the four two-letter
extensions shown above. Four should not be hard to remember and the above TLDs appear to all now
be wide open for registrations, or at least more open than the U.S. Government's legacy root servers
which only serve the privileged digerati, not the "Internet community".
Jim Fleming
128-bit DNS is closer than you think...
COM...DE...NET...ORG...INFO...BIZ...US...ONLINE
http://ipv8.dyndns.tv
http://ipv8.dyns.cx
http://ipv8.no-ip.com
http://ipv8.no-ip.biz
http://ipv8.no-ip.info
http://ipv8.myip.us
http://ipv8.dyn.ee
http://ipv8.community.net.au
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