On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Mally Mclane wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
Do any ISPs or web hosting companies have publically available statements on their web sites stating that they will not support the new new.net domains and why they won't? I am getting more requests from users to change our DNS root servers to support this and wanted to see what others tell their users. Any IETF/ICANN statement available?
A brief Google search produces the following (fairly concise and hefty) document: http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf
Speaking from my experience, the new.net idea has been rubbished both on uknot (a list which consists of a lot of the UK Internet Industry movers'n'shakers) and ecdiscuss, it's also been rubbished a lot in the press.
It comes down to - alternative roots break the accepted consistency of the existing hierarchial DNS structure. Unfortunately, there are many crackpots (yes, we get a few who perceive that APNIC has a slightly different role than it does) who take a lot of explaining in order to get the above simple idea through their heads ;) --==-- Bruce. Speaking for myself.