Re: Second level domains for individuals

[Francis Dupont <]

 In your previous mail you wrote:

   There is a hot debate in Hungary. Some peoples want me to
   start registering second level domains for individuals.
   
=> This question was hot debates in DNS working group too.
We have no (not yet ?) good solution but we understand well
the issues. This applies to other problems with a lot of
small domains, individuals (aka private persons) are only
the worst case:
 - individuals can be put in a second/third level domain
 - this domain must be split (because an huge flat domain
 is bad for tech and admin reasons) and *more* the management
 of its sub-domains must be given to ad hoc organization
 (this *is* the real problem!).
 - one way is to use a geographical hierarchy (as US domain).
 It gives a nice split without problems but it is hard to
 involve local/regional authorities into DNS management
 (it is an half success but in fact you need only to give
 the first level, ie regional). The main drawback is
 the name (and E-mail address) changes when an individual moves.
 - the second way is to use an arbitrary split, for instance
 an hash on the name. It gives good and *stable* split but
 it can't solve the management delegation problem.
 - the last way is to put individuals into domains related
 and managed by ISP (Internet Service Providers). This has
 a *terrible* drawback: individuals will be *bound* to
 their service providers. Then I can't recommend this!
There is no new idea ?

Francis.Dupont@localhost

PS: just for an example of the need of a solution of this problem:
in France some CATV operators propose (experimental) access to
the Internet to individuals using PCs and CATV modems (pre IEEE 802.14).