Hi Jon Zittrain, you wrote on 7/8/99 8:20:26 PM:
>Tony,
>
>When you say,
>
>"3) some independent corporation to run a set of DNS servers and maintain
>a
>root zone file that also allows new TLDs to be entered,"
>
>in your view, what entity would instruct the independent corporation about
>what TLDs to enter, and to whom they should point? To be sure, point 3
>(and 1 and 2) may be simple, but 3 is easy precisely because it's cast as
>a
>ministerial task. The "hard" part seems to me to be left open: figuring
>out who instructs the TLD quill holder what to write. Unless you want to
>go for multiple roots--as many on this list do, but your own msg seems to
>exclude--I don't see how you account for this.
>
>Best,
>Jonathan
>
Again, an IETF-like approach might work well here. Open participation and
policy creation are the only real way to gain real consensus.
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Gene Marsh
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