Dave Farber’s Interesting People list echoes this e-mail from Paul Vixie, creator and maintainer of the well-known Bind DNS server.
Vixie says: alternate roots do exist, and more will come[...] i’m ready to consider ways that DNS and BIND might be extended to make that inevitable condition less painful to live in. but if i do it, it will be with rage in my heart against those who could have helped us preserve name universality but who squandered that opportunity for short term political or financial gain.
Seems like the US-DoC/VeriSign monopoly is nearly over. While, for most people, using a single root may prove more efficient, the decision to keep it lies mainly with the US-DoC and particularily in its unwillingess to allow multilateral control on it. As mentioned by the US representative at WSIS: It’s not a negotiating issue. This is a matter of national policy. That is plain wrong. A global DNS issue should be addressed at a global level, not national. If the USG’s concern are the .mil and .gov TLDs, they should just move them under .us.
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