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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