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[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Re;

> attempting to fix something that is not broken


I beleive, that everything has some degree of breakage.  
Everything needs some degree of fixing.
I also tend to beleive in continuous recognition, discussion and fixing of that breakage.

On the DNS, I think we already have split root, 
in a system that does not support a split root,
we just don't admit it.  
I think we should be fixing that,  
not insisting that the old ways are still the only ways 
and that all must stay in the fold.

also I remember the credo as a notion of global, nay - universal, interconnection.
the "one root" variant of that credo is a political aberration in my opinion.
But this is about the specific topic and not the general notion that agrees with you in that

> It is of course a complex system and one where change must be slow, steady and incremental

and i would add, takes many conversations and many types of conversations  in many fora.

avri




On 20 Jan 2013, at 11:05, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> It is of course a complex system and one where change must be slow, steady and incremental
> 
> Any Big Bang change of any description would require a sufficiently large stimulus or threat to the stability of the DNS as a whole.  Otherwise, attempting to fix something that is not broken, and that carries very real risks of breaking in unknown ways once tinkered with, is not a matter of political or technical faith.  It is a matter of engineering and architecture, neither of which believes in blind faith as much as it believes in science and mathematics.
> 
> Meanwhile, the most active proponents of alternate roots are currently either criminal elements or totalitarian regime censors, rather than advocates of liberty and freedom from US exceptionalism.
> 
> --srs (iPad)
> 
> On 20-Jan-2013, at 21:26, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 2. Work from within the system to change what you feel is wrong with it
>> 
>> Yes and no..
>> 
>> The systems by and large excludes this, and other topics, as a matter of faith and will not allow work to be done as a matter of political faith.
>> 
>> And accountability as well as advocacy often requires doing political, or technical work, in outside groups in order to get the system to take on a challenges the system calls too hard or against our morality.
>> 
>> avri
>> 
>> 
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