I was also present at the meeting in Nice. Several people (some of them are reading this) tried to demonstrate that having another root might not be a very good idea, by referring to RFC2826. Milton Mueller had a presentation argueing that multiple roots could work. At question time, I suggested that ONS should apply for its own top level domain .ONS and work under the DNS root rather than trying to re-invent the wheel. I am not sure if proponents of the alternative ONS root have done their homework & looked at previous attempts in details (AlterNIC etc.) I am not sure whether this & the DOC sollicitation are related. Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D. E-mail:<ocl@gih.com> | http://www.gih.com/ocl.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto Gaetano" <roberto@icann.org> To: "'At-Large Worldwide'" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [At-Large] DOC Notice of Inquiry: DNSSEC
I was at the meeting, which was indeed hosted by the EU presidency. One additional piece of information is that at the same meeting, the day before, Eric Besson (French State Secretary for the developement of Digital Economy) had announced the "French root" for the object naming system, as complementary to the one managed by Verisign. Different people might have different opinions on whether the two items are related or not. Cheers, Roberto
-----Original Message----- From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Adam Peake Sent: Thursday, 09 October 2008 15:01 To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] DOC Notice of Inquiry: DNSSEC
On Oct 9, 2008, at 7:09 AM, John L wrote:
This smells bad. Why would the USG, through the Department of Commerce, solicit and consider the input of foreign entities?
Presumably because there will be ccTLDs in the DNSSEC signed root zone who would have some interest in the chain of custody of their own DNSSEC data from their TLD managers to the signed root.
DOC has, after all, been careful over the years to avoid do anything at the root that would annoy other governments.
I hear you, but it doesn't add up. The DOC has no foreign mandate that I'm aware of, and I have no standing with them as a foreign citizen. So while I see the words on the screen in front of me, I'm a bit confused about whether or not me speaking to them will carry any weight at all, or whether this is just window-dressing.
Did they listen during the Green/White paper discussions?
That it's mentioned during a meeting hosted by the EU Presidency perhaps significant. They do need countries on their side with whatever decisions they make.
But who knows what happens if Norm Coleman or similar pick up on this.
Adam
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