This is odd. I have never heard of "alternative" root servers. This sounds counter-intuitive.
But ICANN dosn't seem to be getting it. I read the article, and one of the ICANN board members is from MCI (which owns a LOT of rib cabling on which we all depend). Sounds to much like a special interest conflict. This seems to prove that ICANN is too corperate and dosn't serve the open nature of the Internet.
That said, I don't think some clandestine DNS servers are the rigth way to go. Also, I agree that new domains are needed, but some are just stupid. I mean "aero"? And "biz"? That is just to gimicky for my taste.
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This is odd. I have never heard of "alternative" root servers. This sounds counter-intuitive.
But ICANN dosn't seem to be getting it. I read the article, and one of the ICANN board members is from MCI (which owns a LOT of rib cabling on which we all depend). Sounds to much like a special interest conflict. This seems to prove that ICANN is too corperate and dosn't serve the open nature of the Internet.
That said, I don't think some clandestine DNS servers are the rigth way to go. Also, I agree that new domains are needed, but some are just stupid. I mean "aero"? And "biz"? That is just to gimicky for my taste.