Re: way out of the DNS problems? (former Re: delegation mechanism, Re: T

On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 15:10:21 EDT, Joe Baptista said:

> or 3) joe clueless gets an education and switches to an appropriate route.
Now, much as I would love to be able to advocate a "network driver's license",
it's pretty unreasonable to expect that a person learn about the ORSC/ICANN
battle to understand why he can't reach http://www.walmart.com

Or are you also advocating that they understand BGP so they know what happens
to their packets?

Or did you want them to be able to Just Hit Enter and actually have it WORK?

> them.  as i have said - and as it has been cleared shown - control of the
> "." is in the hands of joe clueless internet users - so in the end they
> hold the power irrespective of law.
It's never been "shown" to my knowledge.  Keep in mind that a large part of
the user community thinks the root is called .AOL

% dig . ns | grep 'IN       A' | awk '{print "root@"$1}'
root(_at_)A(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)H(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)C(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)G(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)F(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)B(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)J(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)K(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)L(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)M(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)I(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)E(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)
root(_at_)D(_dot_)ROOT-SERVERS(_dot_)NET(_dot_)

That's who *REALLY* controls '.'.  I doubt any of them qualify as "Joe Clueless"

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