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By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion, 04/26/02

Paul Hoffman argues that in all the hullaballoo over ICANN and its, um, domain over such things as global top-level domains, a key issue is being lost: the administration of the DNS root, which, of course, is at the heart of the Internet itself.

In this paper, Hoffman argues for steps he said will keep the name servers running well, including creation of a TLD Secretariat, the addition of 25 new gTLDs every six months and, finally, the end of ICANN itself:

While ICANN looks unfixable, the DNS root is still manageable. Where ICANN has floundered, the DNS root operators have fostered a useful and stable Internet naming system. This part of the Internet has weathered the massive growth of both traffic and avarice, and its resilience is admirable.

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