[Gllug] FQDN for local mail relay?

[Juergen Schinker]

Am Mi, 20.12.2006, 20:31, schrieb Martin A. Brooks:
> Juergen Schinker wrote:
>> http://european.nl.orsn.net/about.php
>>
>>
>> imagine your upstream DNS/Internet-Provider suddenly does not give you a
>> correct answer ,or no answer at all...
>>
>> do you have all the IPs at the top of your head?
>>
>
> I assumed wrong.  The fundamental principle of the Internet is the
> ability to route around damage.  Like that caused, for example,  by our
> American friends who decided one day to turn on the fuckwittery called
> SiteFinder.  They were not the first, they will not be the last.  Your
> paranoia, however, is well founded.
> --
 i also found this from EU-Kommisar Viviane Reding


What has changed?
No one is denying that the US government has done an excellent job in
ensuring
that the administration of this system has been fair and efficient. But, many
countries are questioning if it is appropriate for one government alone to
supervise
such an important part of the infrastructure.
The problem is that the US government effectively has the right to decide
who can
run each country’s Top Level Domain such as dot.jp, dot.kr or dot.cn,
while the
governments of the countries concerned are only indirectly involved
through an
advisory committee to ICANN. It is the US government as well that has the
sole
right to decide when a new Top Level Domain can be introduced into
cyberspace,
whether it be a new country-code or a new so-called “generic” Top Level
Domain
such as .com or .net.
The recent controversy around a possible new .xxx Top Level Domain for adult
content highlighted this bizarre situation. Several public administrations
have
expressed concern over this initiative, including the European Commission,
but it
will be the sole right of the US government to decide whether this Top
Level Domain
enters cyberspace or not, even though it will be visible on the screens of
net users
in countries all around the world.
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