Hi, On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:32:40AM +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
Your PC at home is not offering a service that will exist for the foreseeable future. I can forsee a future for the Internet into the 22nd century when you and your home PC will be dead.
But with the same logic somewhere in the 22nd century we might not even be using DNS anymore...
Your home PC is probably not offering a service that is used freely by many organizations. I think this part of the definition needs some work because some people would argue that Google's service meets this criteria but I would argue that part of Google's service are the ads which are not offered freely, i.e. they cost money.
Google is free for most users...
Your home PC is not offering any service that would continue to be offered even if you and your home and your company cease to exist. But if DENIC ceases to exist, it is 100% certain that ICANN would find some other organization to continue offering .de nameservice.
What makes you so sure that DNS and/or ICANN will survive?
Maybe this definition should use a name other than critical infrastructure. And my suggestion is nothing more than a first draft. My main point is that a new policy proposal should begin with a first draft of the policy itself so that people can discuss the draft policy instead of spending all the time discussing why it is impossible to write a policy at all.
I second that. This is why I already wrote a draft of a few key elements that would enable the RIPE NCC to make *decisions* based on that policy. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 57882 (57753) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299