Naming via SDSI
Don Marti
dmarti@zgp.org
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:46:52 -0800
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:42:58AM -0800, hal@finney.org wrote:
> It's going to be a dynamic process. That's how competition works.
> It seems likely that a substantial number of TLDs will be in flux at
> any given time. This will lead to ambiguity, uncertainty and costs in
> doing name lookups. I don't think this is an ideal solution.
A two-tier structure of both competitive and official TLDs would be
better than an ICANN-only one.
People who want to explore the wild and wooly domains can run a simple
caching nameserver at home; people who want to stick with ICANN and
any rogue TLDs that get well-established can use their ISP's name server.
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