Alternative DNS systems and net neutrality - Was: Re: [governance] DNSsec and allternative DNS system

[Phil Regnauld]

Karl Auerbach (karl) writes:
> 
>  Where is the source of power, of legal authority, to deny existence to those 
>  who wish to offer competing DNS roots?
> 
>  There is none.

	Indeed, but that still doesn't make the alternatives more useful
	or practical for most if not all users.
	
	You could argue that ICANN knows this, that the inertia of the existing
	system makes it very hard to come up with an alternative (and rightly
	so -- it works very well as it is), but then that wouldn't be anything
	new, would it ?  You might even go further and say that the reason why
	ccTLDs are strongly encouraged to enter a contract with ICANN is that
	it helps ICANN add much needed support to its questioned legitimacy.
	And I wouldn't argue.

	So no, no source of power, or legal authority, can deny existence of
	these roots.  And ?

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