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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

> But surely this risks massive attack for example from governments.
> Could there be a defence mode in which T2 layer spawns multiple
> temporary roots?  Should opennic even risk getting into a cyberwar?
That's one of the reasons why OpenNic requires voting on projects such as 
this... There could be risks involved.  We have already seen periodic DDOS 
attacks on various servers, and we have rode through those in any way we could.  
Something like this has the potential to draw an angry response from someone 
with the computing power and network capacity to simply DDOS us all into oblivion.

So the question becomes, does OpenNic wish to hang in the shadows and continue 
providing basic alternate DNS services, or are we OK with charging into a 
potential political minefield in the hopes that we can do something really 
different from ICANN?