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==Theories on Why Alternative Root Projects Fail==

==Theories on Why Alternative Root Projects Fail==

* Paul Vixie explains that “any set of DNS root name servers that serves any DNS root zone that did not come from IANA is an ‘alternate root’...[M]any attempts to fork the IANA name space and offer non-standard top level domains...has failed. Often that failure followed public ridicule by me. I think alternate roots of the ‘name space fork’ variety are a terrible idea for the global Internet, although I recognize the need for this kind of name space augmentation inside many enterprise networks...Vibrant competition among Internet name spaces is bad for all of us—bad for business, bad for freedom of expression, bad for national and personal security."<ref>[https://circleid.com/posts/20160330_let_me_make_yeti_dns_perfectly_clear Vixie, Let Me Make Yeti-DNS Perfectly Clear, CircleID]</ref>

* Paul Vixie explains that “any set of DNS root name servers that serves any DNS root zone that did not come from IANA is an ‘alternate root’...[M]any attempts to fork the IANA name space and offer non-standard top level domains...has failed. Often that failure followed public ridicule by me. I think alternate roots of the ‘name space fork’ variety are a terrible idea for the global Internet, although I recognize the need for this kind of name space augmentation inside many enterprise networks...Vibrant competition among Internet name spaces is bad for all of us—bad for business, bad for freedom of expression, bad for national and personal security."<ref>[https://circleid.com/posts/20160330_let_me_make_yeti_dns_perfectly_clear Vixie, Let Me Make Yeti-DNS Perfectly Clear, CircleID]</ref>

* DNS governance should be completely detached from governments and sovereignty concerns.<ref>[Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>

* DNS governance should be completely detached from governments and sovereignty concerns.<ref>[https://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/04/07/alternate-dns-roots-and-the-abominable-snowman-of-sovereignty/ Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>

* The strong network effects associated with the [[IANA]] root zone create powerful disincentives to violate the global uniqueness of domain names.<ref>[Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>

* The strong network effects associated with the [[IANA]] root zone create powerful disincentives to violate the global uniqueness of domain names.<ref>[https://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/04/07/alternate-dns-roots-and-the-abominable-snowman-of-sovereignty/ Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>

* Countries’ economies and security are intimately tied to communications facilitated by the DNS root zone.<ref>[Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>

* Countries’ economies and security are intimately tied to communications facilitated by the DNS root zone.<ref>[https://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/04/07/alternate-dns-roots-and-the-abominable-snowman-of-sovereignty/ Alternate DNS Roots and the Abominable Snowman of Sovereignty, IGP]</ref>

==On-Going Issues==

==On-Going Issues==