Re: ICANN Needs a Good RootPaul Vixie – Jul 17, 2005 11:10 AM PST
I never said I didn't want two or more roots at the same time, I just said that DNS isn't designed for that and that it won't work. What I want, or what anybody wants, doesn't enter into it, unless what somebody wants is to design a new DNS-like system that somehow has support for multiple roots. That might even be fun to work on. If you're interested in funding such work, please get in touch. But beware!! The resulting system will likely NOT be backward compatible with existing DNS data, so before you wire money to such a project, be prepared to build a new Internet naming system from scratch that starts out empty of content.
I never said I didn't want two or more roots at the same time, I just said that DNS isn't designed for that and that it won't work. What I want, or what anybody wants, doesn't enter into it, unless what somebody wants is to design a new DNS-like system that somehow has support for multiple roots. That might even be fun to work on. If you're interested in funding such work, please get in touch. But beware!! The resulting system will likely NOT be backward compatible with existing DNS data, so before you wire money to such a project, be prepared to build a new Internet naming system from scratch that starts out empty of content.
It seems that Tiscali, a major ISP, will be using Public-Root on Sep 1, or so it seems:
http://www.tiscali.com/press/releases/10552825f1a.html