[discuss] Interesting article

Tue Jan 14 18:03:43 UTC 2014

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <1389715417.54174.YahooMailNeo at web121001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>,
> at 08:03:37 on Tue, 14 Jan 2014, nathalie coupet <nathaliecoupet at yahoo.com>
> writes
>
>  Could you explain how removing a country from the Internet in the root
>> zone would not prevent this country from being connected to the Internet?
>>
>
> Because .com isn't a country?
>

And to add, if by "removing a country from the Internet....." you meant
removing the ccTLD of that country, then i will say that does not
disconnect the country from the internet, because networking is not about
names but about bits/packet transfer. Naming is the fancy thing very useful
for users but not necessarily useful/required by the devices to
communicate. There are many other nameservers[1] not operating the ICANN
single root structure and used by those who wishes to. This simply means
the internet will still smile if a country zone is removed, although it
will bring a temporal discomfort to users ;) but hey, we got used to v4 now
we are getting used to v6 and thats the trend.

All that said, no one prays for an un-coordinated naming of the Internet
resources.

Cheers!
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Root_Server_Network

>
> Because even .uk was removed, all that would disappear (modulo caching and
> out-of-band methods of keeping the IP address of the servers in question in
> circulation) to a first approximation is .co.uk websites and email
> servers. It wouldn't even affect users in the UK's ability to look at
> websites in, or send email to .fr, let alone .com. And they'd get replies
> to their emails as long as they were using an email address outside of .
> co.uk
>
> [nb there are other .uk sceond level domains, omitted for clarity].
> --
> Roland Perry
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