Internet-Draft                                 Walther H. Diechmann
Category: Informational               		   ALCO Company aps
Expires May 31, 1997                                       Jan 1997


          Localisation of registry function and services
            (draft-iahc-diechmann-localisation-00.txt)


ABSTRACT

In the interest of genuine dispersion of the control with the DNS,
registry function and services should be localised to the greatest
possible extend by appointing new registries on a basis of locality.


BACKGROUND

We are located in a far region of Denmark and find ourselves hopelessly
deprived of control with the registry functions and services due to the
current "run on domain names". Big corporations with the financial
strenghts to corner the market for attractive domain names has made it
impossible to give local customers the domain names that would fit best
to their organisation.


PROPOSAL

We propose to widen the range of TLDs to incorporate regions like, say
.NewYork, .LondonCity, .Jylland or whatever size is deemed appropriate
in the region - or perhaps in an even more liberal world, requested by
local operators. We further propose to appoint new registries on a basis of
locality and not economic or structural competitiveness.


TECHNICAL IMPLICATIONS
A wast expansion of the TLDs will impose an number of technical implications
on the root-servers. Rejecting the idea of a multitude of TLDs merely on the
technical implications can, however, not be the way ahead in our view.

EPILOG

We do not want to impose bureaucracy on the registry function and services
and neither do we want to bar competition but if a more equally dispersed
control of the DNS is not reached, we envision a near future with only a
few companies controlling the name-space by having had the financial and
structural strenghts to corner the market in time - and this will lead to
the opposite of competition: pragmatic monopoly


Author

Walther H. Diechmann
walt@alco.dk