[governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still...)

[Roland Perry]

In message <962BE8CB-4208-4C78-9B43-A0EC2B6106FB at virtualized.org>, at 
14:06:14 on Thu, 2 Aug 2012, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> writes

>Or, you could remove the "global" in front of the DNS and have a myriad
>of "local" DNS namespaces that people choose based on their whim.

 From the end user's point of view, that is already the case. How many 
realise that calling your http server "www" is just a local whim, and 
that calling it "m" works just as well[1].

With "m" merely being another local whim to indicate it might be in a 
lower resolution so that mobiles can cope better with it.

DNS is more than the content of the root zone file, and conveying that 
concept is vital in putting the root name servers into context.

[1] eg http://m.bbc.co.uk/news vs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
-- 
Roland Perry

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