[ga-roots] How the sky might fall

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From: Bruce James <bmj@keyname.net>
Subject: How the sky might fall
To: Roots <ga-roots@dnso.org>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 21:30:46 -0500

How the sky might fall

As we mentioned earlier, moving to "liberated" DNS servers wouldn't be the
end of the world. It could happen, silently and overnight, without anyone
noticing. And it could happen like this.

Suppose the .uk names were ultimately registered in a single text file - as
they all are right now - not in Herndon Virginia, home of the NSI (actually,
it's owned by NSI's parent company Verisign) but on a server in the Anyplace
Islands. British users, or anyone else wanting to click to a .uk domain
would need to access Anyplace or one of its downstream name servers. How
would they do that? Through their ISP.

As Peter Dengate Thrush points out, it only takes a major country code
administrator from say, the Germany, the UK or France to take its names to a
liberated domain, and all the ISPs in that nation would be obliged to point
to the new root server. There'd be no need to fiddle with your Network
Control Panel - it would happen without you even noticing.








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