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[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 21:12:59 -0500, John Kozlowski (ShofarDomain.com) 
wrote:

> Some of the other alternative roots are https://namespace.us,
> http://www.inaic.net (which may be defunct), and
> http://cesidianroot.net (which is a bit odd).

> Being a commercial root is not bad.  Being a monopoly root is.

> I don’t think we need to form a larger group, or merge with others,
> but rather use technology to remove the monopoly power.

> Change the resolver such that it does not start at “the” root, but all
> roots.  Therefore when someone resolves “example.com” the ICANN root
> will respond.  When someone resolves “example.ing” both OpenNIC and
> ICANN’s root will respond.  In this case you could check the SLD to
> see if both continue to respond.  If both do then the end user via
> configuration can choose.

> When conflicts occur, this puts the choice in the hands of the user,
> not the system.  

This is an appealing idea.  If all the non-ICANN groups could share in
promoting a single standard or alternative default resolver available on
all platforms, then it could slowly transform the landscape.  Once it
was adopted as default by Mozilla, the momentum would be irresistable
(-ish).



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