Re: alt dns Re: Good Offenses [was Re: deciding which fork in the road to take...]

From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 17:33:14 MST


Brian Atkins wrote:
> ... ICANN sucks! What would be interesting is if you had some alt
> registries, and the linux people put it into their default distros
> so that all their users started using the alt registries, would that
> eventually cause the other OS vendors such as M$ to include support
> for the registries in their products? I am really surprised no one
> in linux-land has come up with the idea for "open source" registries
> not sanctioned by ICANN.

Define "using the alt registries". Sure I suppose it would be easy to
get a large number of Linucians (not all of them) to *recognize*
domain.tux. But who'd want such a domain unless they're publishing only
material of interest to penguins? And what is MS's customers'
motivation to demand access to such material?

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