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

[Bret Fausett]

Just to pile on with what Michael wrote below. People are already  
comfortable with an Internet experience inside a walled garden. A  
great many users, especially the newest Internet users, communicate  
not by email but by facebook and myspace messages. All of those people  
had to take certain steps to register and enter the walled community  
space, which isn't really that different than what New.net tried to  
get people to do by adding the plugin. This idea that we all need to  
be able to talk to each other is belied every day by the way people  
inside discrete communities are really using the net.

On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law  
wrote:
> On the underlying issue, it's clear that alternate roots, if  
> properly managed and properly promoted, are safe and legal, but not  
> of interest to most people at present.  They are not all that useful  
> for most people due to the network effects (the root's value is tied  
> to the size of the installed user base).  It's also clear that ICANN  
> does not feel at all shy about name collisions, further casting a  
> cloud over a monied deployment of any new namespace.  It's hard at  
> present to see the value proposition given the risks for investors,  
> which is why it's not happening. Economics, not law, I think.

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