[ncdnhc-discuss] Will ZA domain name servers grind to a halt and make all subdomains of ZA totally unreachable?

[todd glassey]

My take is that this is what is going to happen as the next stage of the
global internet. Countries since they cannot come to a legal critical mass
with each other, will erect real eBorders and bust people for breaking the
rules therein. This is not to be worried about, its a stage that the global
internet will/must go through on its way to becoming part of the terran
birthright.

In the interim - before we are one world and one network, the
compartmentalizing of eBoarders allows for a virtually unlimited DNS Name
pool to be made available to those comparmentalized customers. The only
thing that would need to be done to allow DNS to function in this model is
that a PREFIX would need to be addable (optionally) to specify which country
zone compartment (or DNS tables) you were to use.

This would allow for mark replication in a unrestricted manner.

My take is that the only people that will object to this are those that
insist that the entire Internet name space must be contiguous and that
simply is a bunch of hogwash...

The reality is that stratifying DNS into a number of zones and NAT bridging
the zones together will work. All we need is an Inter-zone nomenclature and
people to agree that this is the next step.


Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Manon Ress" <mress at essential.org>
To: "NCDHC" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:07 AM
Subject: [ncdnhc-discuss] Will ZA domain name servers grind to a halt and
make all subdomains of ZA totally unreachable?


> FYI:
> >From Business Day (South Africa) 3 June 2002
>
> State's plan on internet domain names raises alarm Political
> Correspondent CAPE TOWN A proposal by the parliamentary communications
> committee to establish a section 21 company to manage domain names on
> the internet in SA has raised alarm bells about a looming crisis that
> could see all internet connections in the country cut off.
>
> Supported by the communications department and the African National
> Congress, the proposals in the Electronic Communications and
> Transactions Bill on setting up a domain name authority are vehemently
> opposed by opposition parties and the current administrator of the ZA
> domain.
>
> The committee plans to finalise and vote on the bill today . Much of the
> chapter on the domain names was approved and voted on Friday but could
> be discussed again today. Government is opposed to the current
> administrative system for the ZA domain name, which it says is
> "monopolistic" and without a regulatory framework to manage the expected
> explosive growth of the internet.
>
> Communications chairman Nkenke Kekana said that the domain name
> authority had to be "representative, accountable to all South Africans
> and proactive in promoting the internet".
> In terms of the bill, the communications minister would appoint a panel
> which would recommend nominated candidates to be appointed to the board
> of a section 21 firm.
>
> But domain name administrator Mike Lawrie, who is one of the cochairmen
> of Namespace ZA, which will take over the administration in future, has
> objected to the excessive powers the minister would wield over the
> domain name system in SA.
>
> Lawrie said this was "quite unacceptable". He warned of a "national
> disaster", saying he would not hand over the administration if
> government interference in the internet was provided for in law.
>
> If Lawrie refused to get himself licensed as required by the bill, this
> would mean he could no longer continue operating and that the
> administration of the ZA domain name would collapse.
> This would mean that normal internet and e-mail connections would no
> longer function.
>
> "The vast majority of internet connections in and into this country will
> simply not happen, because the ZA domain name servers will grind to a
> halt and make all subdomains of ZA totally unreachable," Lawrie said.
>
> The gov.za domain name would also not work. "Parliament cannot pass
> legislation and expect that the internet will kowtow to that
> legislation. It does not work that way. The legislation must in keeping
> with the standards of the internet, or it will lead to problems.
>
> "There are very clear standards laid down for how a redelegation of a
> country code domain shall take place," he said. For the redelegation to
> meet international standards laid down by the Internet Corporation for
> Assigned Names and Numbers there has to be agreement between Lawrie, as
> the present administrator, government, and significant interested
> parties.
>
> Democratic Alliance communications spokeswoman Dene Smuts said the bill
> "bald-facedly expropriates" the existing domain name authority. She
> rejected government's rationale for a new administrative system, saying
> a domain name authority did not and could not roll out services.
>
> See also:
> http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2002/0206031206.asp?O=TE
>
> Controversial ECT Bill discussions come to an end
> BY PHILLIP DE WET, ITWEB NEWS EDITOR
> [SNIP]
> During the weekend, Andile Ngcaba, director-general of the Department of
> Communications, said an amended version would see an intermediary panel
> inserted into the process. The minister would appoint the independent
> panel, which would in turn appoint the directors of the domain
> authority.
>
> But current .za administrator Mike Lawrie, who has controlled the domain
> since its inception, has vowed not to hand control over to a government
> he believes not technically capable of handling the fragile system. He
> has warned that domain names, and e-mail addresses, that use the popular
> .co.za suffix could "go dark" due to improper management.
>
> Lawrie has, since 1998, been involved in setting up an organisation to
> take over from him. Such a body, Namespace SA, was formed in September
> last  year. Government was invited to participate in the body and
> appoint representatives to its board, but declined.
>
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which
> is responsible for globally overseeing the domain name system, requires
> the consent of the current administrator for any re-delegation of
> responsibility.
> [SNIP]
>
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