Mathias Koerber wrote:
] 
] But Karl is wrong. He is comparing the DNS with phonebook publishers.
] The difference is that the phonebook publishers are not 'authoritative'
] over the data (the phonenumbers) in their phonebooks.
] The assignment of telephone numbers is controlled by the National
] Numbering Plan Administrators in each country. And there is also only
] one, and their common root is the ITU which allocated country codes.
] If each telco was free to assign their own area codes, telephone numbers
] etc that would be much more akin to multiple roots than phonebook
] publishers.
] 
] The publishing of phonebooks is more akin to search engines and index pages,
] that simply list (arbitrary subsets) of existing allocations, but have to
] power over the existence, allocation or functioning of same.

Good point, Mathias.

Patrick, if you think you need to keep talking about alternate roots
could you please do it somewhere else.  Preferably someplace where
people are interested in talking about alternate roots (eg: TLDA).

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 David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
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