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

[John Levine]

>first someone has to figure out if new DNS classes are practical or  
>even fully technically possible as the protocols currently stand.

The DNS class feature has been unused since the demise of the Chaosnet
protocols in the 1980s.  The DNS standards still reserve bits for the
class number, but attempts to use any class other than IN won't work
because nobody's software has used other classes for over 20 years.

ICANN is not my favorite organization but competitive root systems make
about as much sense as competitive phone number systems.

R's,
John
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