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Richard Sexton wrote:
[in a discussion with Brian Tao <taob@zap.io.org>]
> The EDNS hack, searcing the ALternic root servers if the
> current root serves don't resolve a name seems sound in theory
> and has worked well in operastion. I don't see the harm in it.

  Well, I like the experiment (although Karl seem convinced
I don't), but do have a scalability concern.

  If a second company starts up in competition to Alternic,
and starts providing root service, either as a primary source of data 
or as a fallback after the normal ones. then they can sell another
copy of cybercafe.biz to someone else entirely...
  and the end user customer will get 
the one in Toronto if their ISP subscribes to Alternic, the one in
Podunk if their ISP subscribes to  NotherNic, and one in Tnuctipun
if their ISP subscribes to MarsNic.

  This is, in my humble opiniom, a Bad Thing.

  It is solvable, but business pressures and the lack of a commons
(as in ``the tragedy of '') could prevent a solution.

  Personally I'd be cautious about what I registered in and liberal in
what I'd search (:-))

--dave
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