RE: [ga] DNSO ICANN board member

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 11:41 PM 8/31/00 -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

Try this then:

"An Alternative Root is a DNS root zone containing both ICANN administered 
Top Level Domains and additional non-ICANN administered Top Level Domains."

Dave has the concept right. But, in order for the DNS root not to fragment, 
the ICANN root has to act as the baseline as that is the lowest common 
denominator. You mileage may vary with time.

>This is a definition?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:25 PM
> > To: James Love
> > Cc: ga@dnso.org
> > Subject: Re: [ga] DNSO ICANN board member
> >
> >
> > DNS root subject to independently administered TLD assignments.
> >
> > d/
> >
> > At 02:13 AM 9/1/00 -0400, James Love wrote:
> >
> > >What is the ICANN definition an alternative root?  The ICANN staff
> > >stated in the TLD RFC that:
> > >
> > >      "The introduction of the proposed TLD should not
> > disrupt current
> > >operations, nor should it create alternate root systems,
> > which threaten
> > >the existence of a globally unique public name space."
> > >
> > >     Does a definition of an aternative root system exist?
> >
> >
> >
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Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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