On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Rees<jar@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. -- Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science (nominally retired) UMASS-Boston ram@cs.umb.edu http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram/calendar.html phone (+1)617 287 6466