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"The worst case scenario here is just a fragmented DNS, and the US losing control of the .com TLD."

That is the best case scenario.



By fragmented DNS, do you just mean distributed? Because DNS is already distributed and consistent. We don't have to trade one to get the other.


No by fragmented DNS he means DNS servers in Europe would route you perfectly fine to Megavideo.com but US servers wouldn't. So all you'd have to do is change your DNS address to a European one and bingo.

It's one thing to pass PATRIOT or SOPA, but try passing legislation to create a multi-billion dollar firewall to effectively block other DNS servers and block offending IP addresses.


But there's already a DNS "root", so in order to have a split DNS, you'd need to "roots", and two completely separate trees of .com, .org. .us, and .co.uk and everything. There wouldn't be any overlap. You might be able to hack something into some of the DNS zones now to give different answers based on geography, but when DNSSEC or DNS Curve are rolled out, it will break completely.


Isn't this already the case for sites that have been "seized" by the ICE?


I assume he means multiple disagreeing roots under control of different organizations.


Please explain your alternate worst-case.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China\

In other words, a reasonably effective implementation that would effect Joe Sixpack.

The US is already abusing their alleged jurisdiction over the .com TLD and unfortunately there doesn't yet seem to be a real risk of fragmentation.


Correct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China


Sorry, remove that final char to use the link. Not sure how that got on there.


You can edit the original post ...


I cannot. The time limit ran out by the time I noticed.




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