A point of agreement (Re: [ga-roots] response to response to response)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

At 00:40 29.05.2001 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
>Smart service providers won't offer highly
>conflicted names, most consumers won't buy them,
>and ISPs won't support them. They will converge, or
>die. Domain names have no value otherwise. You
>can't play with them, or hang them on your wall.

Thanks for making it clear that you think a single root will eventually occur.

It is clear that we have agreement even among those who do not want to 
admit it that there needs to be a way to get to the point where one name 
has only one resolution in any DNS service.

ICANN has proposed one way: strict regulation of entries into a single 
root, no conflicts allowed.
Name.space, ORSC and others have proposed another way: first come first 
served, talk until tired whenever conflicts occur.
New.net has proposed a third way: sell what you want, and hope to get so 
many customers that the others won't dare challenge you.

I personally think that ICANN's way is fairer and less painful than the 
other current proposals; I may be in a minority on that.


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