Re: [ga-roots] New.net releases AOL compliant plug-in

[marc@schneiders.org]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, at 15:49 [=GMT-0700], Kristy McKee wrote:

> I am still not confident New.Net is running a root service.
> 
> I am trying be inclusive so our consensus applies to creative solutions as 
> well as those put in place to save us the headache of relying on creative 
> solutions.  Also to determine if New.net would "need" to be a part of the 
> TLDA to avoid collisions.  I am of the opinion ICANN should participate 
> with the TLDA...
> 
> According to New.net's CEO:
> 
> "New.net does not rely on "root servers" for its system.  Rather, half of
> our users access our domain names via ISPs that permanently cache the
> location for the authoritative servers for our TLDs (such that the ISPs'
> name servers do not need to ask the ICANN root servers for the location,
> as with other TLDs).  The other half of our users access our domain
> names via our client application, which merely appends ".new.net" to the
> end of one of our domain names before sending the address request
> through normal DNS channels to the authoritative servers for our TLDs.
> Thus, technically we do not need or use a separate root server to answer
> queries for New.net domain names."  - David Hernand

This can be true, I think. If the ISPs that are with new.net make
their nameservers authoritative for the new.net TLDs, while depending
on the DoC root for the rest of the namespace, the above is accurate.
They don't need any root service for the TLDs they are authoritative
for. Just the same as that my nameserver will not ask any root-server
or gtld-server for information to locate schneiders.org. It already
knows from its own zone files. Still I find it a mere play with words.
In fact new.net creates just as much an augmented root as e.g. the
pacific root or alternic. 

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