Subject: "...on so-called duplicate TLDs..."

From: "Jim Fleming" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:50:57 -0500

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc10/msg04882.html
From: "L. Gallegos" <[email-masked]> 

"If you have duplicates of any TLD, you 
have problems with all sorts of things, email being just one.  The roots 
need to agree to not duplicate TLDs and were working towards that until 
the duplication of .BIZ by ICANN.  I'm sure that someone somewhere 
will duplicate .com and there will be the biggest mess we've seen yet if 
and when that happens. Under the DNS, you still cannot duplicate TLD 
registries and not have technical problems."
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1. You are going to see "parallel" 32-bit, Proof-of-Concept .ORG Registries soon.

2. Yes, there will definately be a "parallel" 32-bit .COM Registry, so people can pay twice.

3. The new 128-bit DNS software assumes there are at least two and maybe three
parallel Registries to ensure there is no single-point-of-corporate-failure and to allow for
one Registry to come and go while the othe other handles the load, with the third Registry
handling the new 128-bit DNS services, which are more extensive than the "toy" 32-bit DNS
services.

4. When .COM is "duplicated" and then "triplicated" it will not be a mess. It will
not be done by amateurs. The idea of having the "toy" 32-bit DNS used as a
place for Proof-of-Concept market-trials and TLD-bootstrapping allows for all
of the so-called "mess" to be worked out in a sandbox where things can crash and
burn and be buried (like Registries people claim work which do not). Eventually,
the [SLD].TLD population matures and companies deploy the serious commercial
infrastructure needed to ensure it is not a mess and is very stable. Via redundant
operators and their redundant servers stability is achieved. Stability is not achieved
by government mandated and manipulated monopolies. As the U.S. Government is
seeing, some of their largest vendors are capable of making multi-billion dollar
accounting errors and going bankrupt, yet they provide the leadership the U.S.
Government claims is stable. Stability comes from good architecture, not back room deals.
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BTW....are both 32-bit DNS Proof-of-Concept .BIZ Registries operational ?

Jim Fleming
2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt