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About Those Root Servers

• Comment posted Aug 10, 2005 9:24 pm PDT — by McTim
  What is in it for the rootops to sign a MoU or contract? What is their incentive to commit themselves contractually to obligations they currently don't have? What is the up-side for them?

A Further Look Into ORSN

• Comment posted Oct 26, 2005 8:56 pm PDT — by McTim
  Milton, The IANA function has been a USG contract long before '98.

Internet Governance: Countdown to Tunis

• Comment posted Nov 08, 2005 4:56 am PST — by McTim
  This is an interesting read.  However, I am unsure as to the implications, especially point 16. Is this proposal meant to be in addition to the current IANA ccTLD redelegation procedures or would it replace those procedures? BTW, AFAIK "A"…

What's Wrong with Domain Names?

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2005 5:34 am PST — by McTim
  While I may agree with TFBW that this behaviour is parasitical, the Devil's Advocate in me wants to ask: Is this not just another example of "Innovation at the Edge" of the network that we all seem to support as…

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 03, 2006 5:23 am PST — by McTim
  Gadi, Let's call it "plain old vanilla DNS, with a sprinkling of IDN", as that's what it seems to be. TLD Ops creating SLDs is the way things have always been done, no?

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 2:34 pm PST — by McTim
  Brett's hypothesis is empirically testable. The question is this: If I am in China, and type in http://www.circleid.com IN ENGLISH, will I get this very website, or will I get http://www.circleid.com.cn ? If I get CircleID, then we still have…

GG, IM, and JE: Welcome (officially) to ISO3166, Good Bye GB

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2006 5:58 pm PDT — by McTim
  Ummmm, How often are you asked how to get a ccTLD??  Doesn't seem like something that a lot of folks would be curious about ;-)

IPv6 for the Rest of Us

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2007 5:22 am PDT — by McTim
  Hello Michelle, Michele Neylon said: If ARIN policed their IPv4 space more carefully they wouldn't have as many issues with IP space .... Your one sentence contains two major false premises: 1. ARIN has no "policing" function. This is not…

On the Hunt for "Critical Internet Resources"

• Comment posted Nov 14, 2007 7:10 pm PST — by McTim
  Nice one Geoff, Thanks for the perspective!

2008 Report Analyzing Distribution and Trends of IP Address Allocation

• Comment posted Jan 30, 2008 5:38 pm PST — by McTim
  Tim, A few comments, 1.  The first para should read "The study report analyzes the distribution and the trends of IP address allocation in 238 countries using historical data." It seems unlikely that allocations and assignments to USA networks got…

Comments on an IP Address Trading Market

• Comment posted Feb 17, 2008 5:29 am PST — by McTim
  Hi Dan, a few points on your general understanding of the RIR system (which is pretty good, but slightly flawed). First, the idea that the RIRs themselves set policy on v4 exhaustion/trading is a misnomer.  They certainly act in concert…

Scotland Wants Its Own Top-Level Domain '.SCO'

• Comment posted Apr 11, 2008 3:13 pm PDT — by McTim
  Ummm, they can send all the "formal requests" they like, but IIUC, if it ain't on the ISO 3166 list, it's not going in the root (and it's not on the list).