Re: brain cycles of the WG

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Edward Lewis:

> There are two reasons why I think it is futile to do a mass rewrite of
> the DNS protocol as it stands today.

The main reason, IMHO, is that a potential successor (which has to be
decoupled from the current DNS to offset itself from its security
issues) would hardly inherent most of the legal privileges DNS enjoys.
Nobody except a TLD registry operator can get away with such
large-scale trademark violations.  This card blanche extends down the
registrar/reseller pipeline, and it's very hard to compete with *that*.

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