But when the "navive user" has his or her config altered in this way, it
is likely to cause confusion and frustration when Joe can reach .STEF,
but Mary can't.
Choice is a fine thing, incompatibility is not.
Having one Internet is a good thing.
Ole
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Joe Touch wrote:
Einar Stefferud wrote:
ORSC does not support what NEW.NET is doing either, but please note that
this has nothing to do the lack of cooperation that ICANN exudes.
Agreed. I was addressing Ole's point _only_, in two ways:
1) it's not so hard to modify a naive user's DNS at
the browser or endhost configuration
2) your ISP may already be doing it by at the DNS
layer
How big an issue this is is distinct from how complex it is to achieve.
Joe