[governance] [Fwd: China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains]

[Joe Baptista]

Meryem Marzouki wrote:

>It seems to me that the really breaking news in this announcement is  
>that it shows the general public - and any decision maker who seems  
>afraid of the '(Internet) world chaos' alternate roots are supposed  
>to cause  - that alternate roots do work when good coordination is in  
>place and respected. And if this applies to multilingual roots, it  
>also applies to any kind of alternate root  and DNS system.
>  
>
Nonsense.  You are mixing apples and oranges to make chocolate milk.  
Any root system simply shows by it's deployment that the process is not 
rocket science.  Root which are exclusive suffer technical failure in 
the long term.  The evidence of that problem already exists in the 
USG/IANA root.

This is not about roots - this is about a trap due to the structure of 
the internets protocols.  There is an underlying assumption that 
co-ordination will exists for basic functions like names and numbers.  
If you want to communicate with each other you must respect the basic 
boundaries of each others networks.  At the root level TLDs are created 
- those creators are the stakeholders.  Those who can win this war are 
the people who co-ordinate the users and existing stakeholders together 
to form a trully public root system.  But not this group.  Much of the 
discussions here on DNS are populated with misinformation.  There is a 
need for many to get an education.


>So, the remaining question is not: "is there a need to coordinate the  
>different language based roots?", but rather: "there is a need to  
>coordinate the different whatever- (certainly not only language-)  
>based roots!", i.e., since I'm pleased to go on with Wolfgang's
>
Having a hard time understanding what you going on about.  Languages are 
irrelevant as are the roots.  There is a need to operate root servers at 
the ISP level for the simple means of ensuring security to ones users.  
Countries may also wish to legislate security on their internets by 
running official national root servers.  Like google the root servers 
collect data - unlike google you can do something about root surveilance 
- which see details:

http://www.cynikal.net/~baptista/P-R/RSPC.pdf

However it is not the roots that are important.  Also languages are 
irrelevant to roots or the internet.  It is labels which must be 
co-ordinated (tlds).  Unless all these roots - including the public root 
for which I am an advocate and supporter - get a clue and start 
co-ordinating together soon - I predict massive technical headaches for 
administrators and increased traffic congestion as more and more roots 
get deployed with conflicting data.

regards
joe
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