RE: [ga] DNSO ICANN board member

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Simon,
At 20:18 05/09/00, you wrote:
>Alf,
>>This means that if someone uses our DN servers, they can be sure that
>>uniquness in the Global Internet is taken care of. This is what I meant with
>>"adding some quality".
>
>Unfortunately, this only applies to your TLD servers (or DNS servers 
>within your control). It does not apply to those who are just querying 
>your published zones.

This is not even true. Let me explain what I plan to install in Stavanger, 
sometime next spring:

I operate "parallel clusters" in my technology jargon. This means that we 
use groups of machines duplicating their web sites (tow or three). Each 
group has a master nameserver targeting hosts in his "cluster" (group). 
This means that no one really knows which cluster a call will hit. If one 
cluster fails, the other provides transparent hot stand-by. This allows us 
to work on a machine in just stopping its "named" (the nameserver).

When I install a parallel cluster in Stavanger, I will get a norwegian 
domain name and I will operate two name servers: DNS1.JEFSEY.NO and 
DNS2.JEFSEY.NO.

It is my priviledge to decide when and if I update my sites. Right?  If I 
stop DNS1.JEFSEY.NO, DNS2.JEFSEY.NO will take over and reroute the calls to 
different pages of may be different content.

While I am in your zone. Actually it will be *your* DNS passing information 
to *your* switcher which will make it to route calls to different IP addresses.

Alf, this is the way the DNS is designed. You can try as mauch as you want: 
Internet is not a centrally operated network. This is why no one owns 
Internet, not even Jon Postel or the ICANN, but the users.

The money trick is to make the user to ignore it: otherwise why would he 
pay?  BTW you have been the first to rise the question: do ccTLD pay the 
ICANN bills?  No because they say we did not *delegate* a job to the ICANN: 
who is the owner, onlythe owner can *delegate*.

ccTLD's clear attitude shows us the way.
BTW if ICANN says "you do not pay, you go out of the root", be sure you 
will get accepted on alt.root for Norwegian to still use Internet.

The day you accept that, you may the address the real question: "if the 
user may use the internet the way he wants, how will I get my money?"
This is a more important since you provide him with other services. But 
should solve it since you start thinking on sound basis.
Jefsey



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