30 Aug
2009
30 Aug
'09
04:29
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Reesjar@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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