> Il 04/08/2022 14:37 CEST Schanzenbach, Martin <mschanzenb...@posteo.de> ha 
> scritto:
> 
> You are trying to kill it using, what, political arguments?

Yes. There is nothing technical in this discussion. We are not arguing over 
wire formats or algorithms, we are arguing about names and ways to gain control 
over them, i.e. policy.

Indeed, many outside of the IETF think that the IETF does not even have the 
authority to approve anything like what you are proposing. (Don't mention 
.onion, it was a mistake.)

> Is the DNS namespace and its billion dollar industry so fragile that it 
> cannot handle experimental alternative domain name resolution mechanisms that 
> may be used for resolve "DNS-compatible" names as well?

If your proposal:
1. does not allow the creation of new DNS names (TLDs or others) outside of the 
established registration policies;
2. does not allow to redefine, redirect or control names that already exist in 
the DNS namespace;
then it is an "alternative domain name resolution mechanism".

If it allows any of the two functions above, and as I understand it does, and 
does so in a way that can be shared across the global Internet, then it is not 
a resolution mechanism but a namespace expansion and even a new name creation 
policy, and also it does potentially fragment the Internet.

> And if the IETF is, as you insinuate, some kind of guardian of that industry 
> that relies on the existing infrastructure, what chances would any proposal 
> have going through the respective processes in the future?

Zero. But you seem to think that the IETF is required to approve whatever 
proposal it receives, and it is not, even in the independent submission stream.

Still, you seem to miss my general point, which is not about what I may think 
of your objectives (indeed, I hate centralization as well, though this is one 
of the few centralized arrangements for which there are valid reasons).

My point is that you cannot plan a revolution and at the same time ask parts of 
the system that you are trying to overturn to rubberstamp it.

If you want the stamps, then you have to turn the revolution into an evolution 
and accept some compromises, such as "!gns" or whatever else. It may actually 
be a more productive strategy in the long term.

If you want a revolution, then you have to be prepared to fight against the 
system. I easily see people in several (non-EU) countries getting the police at 
their door if they start using your system for the purposes that you declare 
right at the top of your draft. That's just how the world works.

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Vittorio Bertola | Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange
vittorio.bert...@open-xchange.com 
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