[governance] Re: Burr & Cade: proposal for introducingmulti-lateral oversight of the root

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:50:55AM +0200,
 Peter Dambier <peter at echnaton.serveftp.com> wrote 
 a message of 86 lines which said:

> Telefone works without centralized root.

Bullshit. The root is called the ITU.

> Why not a central publication like
> 
> http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
> http://www.iana.org/root-whois/zw.htm
> 
> Were everybody can see what nameservers to query for each TLD?

And what's the difference between such a system and the current root?
What does it buy to replace the DNS with HTTP? What problem does it
solve? What if ".org", in your dummy root, is delegated to someone
else and iana.org leads elsewhere?
 
> Never query the ITU or ICANN database again, except for TLDs you
> have lost or for new TLDs.

Sure, do the paperwork yourself, keep track of changes in Timor Leste,
read the ISO 3166 Web page every morning, send email to the TLD
managers to resolve inconsistencies in their own name servers, etc.

Most system administrators have work to do, you know.
 
> That one will do
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

For the record, the Ubuntu project is a serious thing, not affiliated
with the dummy root business and does not endorse such cracks.
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