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A Further Look Into ORSN

• Comment posted Oct 15, 2005 6:38 pm PDT — by David Conrad
  Milton, You've merged the concept of the Internet namespace and the implementation of that namespace.  ORSN has implemented the Internet namespace on a different set of IP addresses than the ones the vast majority of Internet users use.  That's all.…

ICANN Releases Beta TLD Verification Tool

• Comment posted Dec 05, 2006 3:33 pm PST — by David Conrad
  It would be interesting if the tool was actually available. It should be up within a day. There isn’t a reason why the tool was retracted, but it must have something to do with the ITU. It had nothing to…

Where Do Country Code Domain Names Go to Die?

• Comment posted Dec 30, 2006 8:34 pm PST — by David Conrad
  Anne, the sign and stationery people must be rubbing their hands with glee at the very thought of businesses worldwide having to change domain codes. Good thing businesses never change their names, telephone numbers, or postal addresses.  Oh, wait… More…

• Comment posted Dec 18, 2006 11:55 pm PST — by David Conrad
  John, The notion that the ISO-3166 Maintenance Authority is responsible for determining the composition of the root zone, or that IANA is somehow obligated to the ISO-3166 MA to organize the root zone in accordance with ISO-3166 is silly. It…

• Comment posted Dec 15, 2006 3:48 am PST — by David Conrad
  Max, There can be a very bad precedent of killing alive domain even without any real policy reason, just because someone in ICANN don’t like it. No one at ICANN I am aware of has any issue with .SU or…

The Case Against DNSSEC

• Comment posted Aug 14, 2007 9:30 pm PDT — by David Conrad
  Another take on the same question: A Case Against DNSSEC (Thomas Ptacek)

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!

• Comment posted Dec 14, 2007 9:29 pm PST — by David Conrad
  Jay Daley said: Lots of useful stuff here.  One thing I would take issue with is the extraordinary statement that "the DNS is already relatively fragile".  Nothing could be further from the truth. DNS as a whole is quite resilient. …

• Comment posted Dec 14, 2007 9:21 pm PST — by David Conrad
  Brenden, ...except for the network effects associated with the current DNS, which make the likelihood of setting up an alternate tree (that actually gets used) highly improbable. Adding a DNSSEC root key controlled by a single party raises those setup…

Identity Theft of Root Name Servers, Reason Unknown

• Comment posted May 20, 2008 4:47 pm PDT — by David Conrad
  http://blog.icann.org/?p=309

Not a Guessing Game

• Comment posted Jul 17, 2008 3:08 am PDT — by David Conrad
  that demo is of technology, not political will, and is therefore somewhat off-topic. One of the points of the demo was to indicate IANA was undertaking to be in a position to sign the root, even at non-trivial cost (you…

• Comment posted Jul 16, 2008 10:45 pm PDT — by David Conrad
  I also know that ICANN and USG lack the political will to sign the root zone with Secure DNS, While I obviously cannot speak for the USG (and I don't speak for ICANN), stating that ICANN lacks the political will…

IPv6 Considered a Problem by Some Users

• Comment posted Aug 09, 2008 7:47 pm PDT — by David Conrad
  Jeroen, I appreciate the suggestions for getting IPv6 connectivity at home, however the steps you describe reinforce my statement that "IPv6 is not ready for production use".  I (perhaps mistakenly) consider myself to be reasonably technically proficient, but in order…

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 10:44 pm PDT — by David Conrad
  It isn't necessarily the DNS.  From personal experience, there are ISPs that accept the announcement of the 6to4 prefix and propagate that route internally, regardless of what path this imposes on IPv6 traffic.  For example, when I turned on IPv6…