<div>When did we ever have a chance to select the root as users? It's only at an admin level that the option exists - so alt roots are mostly either at an organizational level or non-existant (if the defaults are unchanged)</div>
<div> </div><div>-C<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pouzin@well.com" target="_blank">pouzin@well.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">[snip]<div class="im"><br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> How would taking over critical internet resources by force be any good for the developing world if there are competing DNS roots?<font face="Verdana"><br>
</font></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Sala,<br><br>I don't remember any such inference from anyone, and you probably wanted to mean something different.<br><br>Just to clarify realities. Multiple roots have been around for a while, see: <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root</a><br>.. plus a few more unknown to Wikipedia.<br>And last but not least the chinese root, used by 600 millions people. (Not to be confused with .cn, which is a sort of proxy in the ICANN root.)<br>
<br>Whether multiple roots are competing or not is in the eye of the beholder. Users have a choice, and presumably their preferences are based on some characteristics not available in other roots.<br><br>Are multiple roots a nuisance to stability, security, and resilience of the internet (an ICANN mantra) ?<br>
If it were so, there should be some evidence of it.<br><br>Regards, Louis.<br><br><br><br></div></div>
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