[tdwg-tag] LSID Sourceforge URL & LSID Best Practices

[Bob Morris]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Rees<jar at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> ...
> The fact that ICANN and DNS work as well as they
> do prevents anyone from working on an administratively decentralized
> alternative.
>

Umm, I would say that DNS is a giant success story about
administratively decentralized technology, but my parsing of this
sentence makes me believe that you think it is not administratively
decentralized but should be.  I suppose only the TLD servers have
their DNS records administered of necessity by a single agency, and
those provide substantial redundancy.



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