[ga] Re: We can't be against it?

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Rick Wesson wrote:

"Marilyn, please define the context you wish to discuss security, and 
stability.  They are great words to be thrown around and I encourage real 
discussion on just what you mean by stability."

On behalf of the Business Constituency, Marilyn drafted the August 2001 
Position Paper on Alternate Roots wherein she writes:

"The BC notes that confusion between naming schemes within the DNS and roots 
operated outside of the DNS, pose a severe threat to the stability of the 
Internet and it's ability to ensure reliability and integrity in supporting 
global electronic commerce and communications.  Any threat to the stable and 
reliable resolvability with uniqueness in the naming system of the Internet 
will cause user confusion, raise new opportunities for consumer fraud, and 
cause potential harm to all users of the infrastructure worldwide.  Alternate 
roots, and mechanisms which create confusion related to the authoritative 
nature of the root with its assurance of global uniqueness, may represent 
destabilizing factors to the global uniqueness of the Internet's naming 
system."

It would be fair to ask if Marilyn is now invoking "security and stability" 
as a thinly veiled means to once more attack the alternate roots.
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