A work item?

Despite the stated technical merits of a single root,
I think one needs to reflect on the implications that 
a few of the world's largest ISPs appear to have made 
a business decision to use a superset of the ICANN/US 
Department of Commerce's root zone.

It's claimed that the US had about 100 million Internet 
users in December 2000. According to New.net's numbers
(which needs to be confirmed), about 16% of those can now 
use their alternative root. 

If this percentage continues to grow, ICANN's ability to 
control what goes into the DNS would seem to be constrained.

Robert
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Robert Shaw <robert.shaw at itu.int>
ITU Internet Strategy and Policy Advisor
International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int>
Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland