A work item?

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.