>>>>> "Jeroen" == Jeroen Massar <jeroen(a)unfix.org> writes:
Jeroen> RFC's are still Request For Comments, not Standards,
Some RFCs *are* standards and get labelled as such. Sadly 2826 isn't
one of them. :-(
Jeroen> nevertheless anyone can choose to use any infrastructure,
Jeroen> rootserver, firewalling policies, routing policies and a
Jeroen> whole lot of other politics that that person/organisation
Jeroen> whishes to follow. For that matter if someone would setup
Jeroen> his/her/it's own RIR and started giving out IPv4 or IPv6
Jeroen> addresses, who is going to stop you? That it won't
Jeroen> interoperate with what most of the people on this globe
Jeroen> call 'the internet' is another question, but isn't that
Jeroen> their problem?
Not really. Granted, they have the lion's share of the problems. But
those problems won't stop at the boundary of their net. For example, a
bogus TLD will leak out to people on the real internet, links on web
pages can't be resolved (or point elsewhere), users get confused, mail
gets bounced or treated as spam, etc, etc. Once that happens, bogus
root servers and suchlike become a serious problem for the helpdesks
and support people at ISPs on the real internet.
If only there was a Protocol Police to deal with these impostors.
