[governance] Should Internet based two-sided markers be regulated by countries or govts

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

When did we ever have a chance to select the root as users? It's only at an
admin level that the option exists - so alt roots are mostly either at an
organizational level or non-existant (if the defaults are unchanged)

-C

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>>  How would taking over critical internet resources by force be any good
>> for the developing world if there are competing DNS roots?
>>
>> Sala,
>
> I don't remember any such inference from anyone, and you probably wanted
> to mean something different.
>
> Just to clarify realities. Multiple roots have been around for a while,
> see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
> .. plus a few more unknown to Wikipedia.
> And last but not least the chinese root, used by 600 millions people. (Not
> to be confused with .cn, which is a sort of proxy in the ICANN root.)
>
> Whether multiple roots are competing or not is in the eye of the beholder.
> Users have a choice, and presumably their preferences are based on some
> characteristics not available in other roots.
>
> Are multiple roots a nuisance to stability, security, and resilience of
> the internet (an ICANN mantra) ?
> If it were so, there should be some evidence of it.
>
> Regards, Louis.
>
>
>
>
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