Competition ? Re: [governance] is icann ...

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Avri and all,

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>From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
>Sent: Sep 21, 2009 2:08 PM
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>Subject: Re: Competition ? Re: [governance] is icann ...
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>On 21 Sep 2009, at 13:14, Dr. Francis MUGUET wrote:
>
>> except for some fields like the CNAME that you mentioned at the  
>> workshop,
>
>this is not just any old field but an essential feature, a resource  
>record type that, until and unless it is changed makes the entire  
>project unworkable as the namespaces will leak into each other.  Even  
>if  you intend your new Class not to use it, the fact that in can be  
>used means that the namespaces can't be isolated from each other -  
>hence putting us back in need of a single global name space.   i.e.  
>right back were we are now.
>
>> almost everything is in the RFCs
>
>not by a long shot.

Exactly right IMO.
>
>two things that immediately come to mind are a well formed definition  
>of these Classes and a well formed URI scheme for naming your new  
>services/objects so that apps, apps that would need to be modified,  
>can use the new namespace.
>
>and things in the RFC that have not yet been implemented and tried may  
>or may not work.

Many don't initially and as such require and are updated accordingly.
>
>and how many DNS implementations would need to be updated?
>
>as for http://www.icann.org/en/meetings/stockholm/unique-root-draft.htm
>
>The problem here is that was just an assumption, but when people  
>started looking at doing it, they started to find all the reasons why  
>it would be very difficult.

Wrong.  It's not difficult at all.  What is difficult is cooperation
of the legacy root structure to other and newer existing and future
root structures. 
>
>my prediction is still that even if you can get the resources and  
>talent to do all the necessary research work and if it is indeed  
>doable, which won't be known until some ways down the road, I still  
>predict a decade is the shortest time before deployment - and possibly  
>2 decades before it might see wide spread use - if it proves to be  
>feasible at all. I admit this is slightly better then the infinite  
>time prediction I gave you on first hearing the proposal (the last  
>thing I predicted infinite time on was IPv6 and yeah, maybe i was  
>wrong on that.  maybe.)  as i said, i love seeing people find clever  
>uses for unused protocol features, but one must be realistic about the  
>effort involved in making it work and deployment.  i think there is  
>some cleverness in the proposal but the road to deployment is really  
>really difficult and very very long.

It's only as difficult if Guilds like ICANN desire to make same difficult.
>
>a.
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