March 8, 2006

Splitting The Root

My latest Times article, entitled "Splitting The Root", is now available. It talks about the seriously unfortunate consequences that would result if any government or jurisdiction decided to break away from the unified ICANN DNS root.

Posted by gerv at March 8, 2006 8:32 PM
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"Imagine that, instead of being created by Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman working at CERN in Switzerland, the internet had been invented by ..."

s/internet/web/

Posted by: FP at March 8, 2006 9:38 PM

Ooh, pants. That is a rookie mistake. Thanks :-) I'll email and try and get it changed.

Posted by: Gerv at March 8, 2006 10:21 PM

It talks about the seriously unfortunate consequences that would result if any government or jurisdiction decided to break away from the unified ICANN DNS root.

s/would/will/. China has already begun to break away.

Posted by: glandium at March 8, 2006 10:48 PM

Awesome article, very well written.

Posted by: Lloyd D Budd at March 8, 2006 11:42 PM

Wow! That is fantastically well written. I can point my completely non-technical friends to that and not only will they understand what could happen, but they'll also understand just how serious this issue is. Nice one Gerv!

Posted by: Jonathan Watt at March 9, 2006 12:51 AM

Just trying to spread the word. Let's see how many people "Digg" it.
http://digg.com/programming/Man_from_Mozilla:_Root_Splitting_may_fracture_the_Internet_into_pieces_

Posted by: Rorie at March 10, 2006 8:00 PM

This is off-topic, but why did it used to say at the bottom that you claim to work for the Mozilla Foundation, where it now says "Gervase Markham works for the Mozilla Foundation"?

Posted by: Matt Nordhoff at March 14, 2006 4:13 AM

It only said "I claim" once; that was due to the particular nature of the article in question.

Posted by: Gerv at March 14, 2006 9:49 AM

Really? Well, okay.

Posted by: Matt Nordhoff at March 15, 2006 1:52 AM