For the list's information. -- ================================================================== _/ Richard Welykochy mailto:rick§dot.net.au _/ Dot Communications Ltd http://www.dot.net.au/world ================================================================== Return-Path: link-owner§boomer.anu.edu.au Received: from boomer.anu.edu.au (www.anu.edu.au [150.203.205.12]) by warp.ipacific.net.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA20975; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:57:17 +1000 Received: (from majordom§localhost) by boomer.anu.edu.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA10896 for link-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:19:11 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: boomer.anu.edu.au: majordom set sender to owner-link§online.anu.edu.au using -f Message-Id: <v0211011cb17da1827af7§[203.55.117.184]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:17:32 +1000 To: Ben Elliston <bje§cygnus.com> From: tonyb§netinfo.com.au (Tony Barry) Subject: Re: Resellers and Registries EOI. Cc: Adam Todd <at§ah.net>, link§www.anu.edu.au Sender: owner-link§www.anu.edu.au Precedence: bulk At 4:32 PM 1998/05/12, Ben Elliston wrote: >I wonder if I'm not the only Linker who has a problem with this? You are not the only one. >It seems >to me that having two TLDs for Australia, .au and .aus is going to confuse >the hell out of a lot of people. It would also seem to be unworkable as it would fragment the internet. People better qualified that I can explain :-) > >Furthermore, from what I understand about these "underground" TLDs, the >whole concept is doomed to failure because it relies on _everyone_ in the >world running a name server to cut over to these "new" root name servers. >But correct me if I'm wrong. I think this is partly true. I suspect you could run two independent sets of name servers but you could only use one at a time. You could only find "underground" sites or "real" sites but not both. Adams posting states - >AHNET is one of the leading Peioneers of Alternate Name Space on the >Internet and is recognised as such by NTIA from it's GP document earlier >this year. .AUS is supported on all Alternate Name Servers around the >world and of course by AURSC http://www.aursc.ah.net or http://www.au.rsc I can see <http://www.aursc.ah.net> as it is a "real" site. But I can't see <http://www.au.rsc> presumably because it is "underground". As this is suggested as a commercial operation I for one would not like to invest in it as it seems to be intrinsically flawed. For the latest on what is doing on dns regulation see <http://www.gtld-mou.org/> Tony __________________________________________________________ mailto:tonyb§netinfo.com.au http://purl.oclc.org/NET/Tony.Barry Phone/Fax +61 2-6241-7659 Mobile +61 4-1242-0397 Ningaui Pty Ltd, GPO Box 1680, Canberra, ACT 2601 Convenor of the link network policy list link§www.anu.edu.auReceived on Tue May 12 1998 - 18:41:05 UTC
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