Re: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Page and all,

Page Howe wrote:

> As more of a reader of the list, thank you for the clarification of the
> incorrect factual information.

  Thank you for correctly pointing out WXW's incorrect statement.  However
most of us on this forum are well aware of WXW's shortcomings in this amongst
a host of other areas....

>
>
>   Taking me back to domain names 101 am i correct in saying that the root
> which ICANN "runs" is simply a list of the name servers on which to find the
> server names and locations for a specific top level domain like .uk?

  Let us not forget that ICANN does not yet "Run" the Legacy/USG roots...

>
>
> And further the ICANN/IANA function is to maintain that list.

  Exactly!

>
>
> Page Howe
> www.kidsdomains.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>
> To: "List Admin" <patrick@quad.net.au>
> Cc: "Bruce James" <bmj@keyname.net>; "[ga-roots]" <ga-roots@dnso.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall
>
> >
> > Monday, June 04, 2001, 8:14:33 AM, List Admin wrote:
> >
> > > From: Bruce James <bmj@keyname.net>
> > > Subject: How the sky might fall
> > > To: Roots <ga-roots@dnso.org>
> > > Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 21:30:46 -0500
> >
> > > How the sky might fall
> >
> > > As we mentioned earlier, moving to "liberated" DNS servers wouldn't be
> the
> > > end of the world. It could happen, silently and overnight, without
> anyone
> > > noticing. And it could happen like this.
> >
> > > Suppose the .uk names were ultimately registered in a single text file -
> as
> > > they all are right now - not in Herndon Virginia, home of the NSI
> (actually,
> > > it's owned by NSI's parent company Verisign) but on a server in the
> Anyplace
> > > Islands. British users, or anyone else wanting to click to a .uk domain
> > > would need to access Anyplace or one of its downstream name servers. How
> > > would they do that? Through their ISP.
> >
> > > As Peter Dengate Thrush points out, it only takes a major country code
> > > administrator from say, the Germany, the UK or France to take its names
> to a
> > > liberated domain, and all the ISPs in that nation would be obliged to
> point
> > > to the new root server. There'd be no need to fiddle with your Network
> > > Control Panel - it would happen without you even noticing.
> >
> > This is, of course, absolutely untrue and absurd.
> >
> > The .uk domains are not in fact served from NSI/Verisign controlled
> > nameservers.
> >
> > NS1.NIC.UK, which is controlled by Nominet, the .UK Registry, is the
> > nameserver where those names are hosted.
> >
> > The situation described above is not technically sound.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > William X Walsh
> > mailto:william@userfriendly.com
> > Owner, Userfriendly.com
> > Userfriendly.com Domains
> > The most advanced domain lookup tool on the net
> >
> >
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