Re: [wg-c] more on non-shaired gTLDs

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 07:48 PM 3/19/00 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>On 20-Mar-2000 Dave Crocker wrote:
> > <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-unique-dns-root-00.txt>
>
>Nice try, but please, try again.   This only deals with an IAB position on the
>existance of multiple root server networks and their use.


 From the I-D:

>2.1.  Maintenance of a Common Symbol Set
...
>    Since the DNS is hierarchically structured into domains, the
>    uniqueness requirement for DNS names in their entirety implies that
>    each of the names (sub-domains) defined within a domain has a unique
>    meaning (i.e.  set of DNS records) within that domain.  This is as
>    true for the root domain as for any other DNS domain.  The
>    requirement for uniqueness within a domain further implies that there
>    be some mechanism to prevent name conflicts within a domain.  In DNS
>    this is accomplished by assigning a single owner or maintainer to
>    every domain, including the root domain, who is responsible for...

There's more relevant text, but the above should suffice.

d/

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