I'm advocating competing root systems, not competing root servers. The
latter doesn't make technical sense to me.
I believe that ICANN (and NTIA) is operating on the premise that any new
root systems would be antithetical to their mandate to preserve net
stability. Indeed, much of ICANN's power derives from a (I believe
misguided) belief that there can be only one root system and that it must
be carefully managed and weed/rogue systems suppressed in the name of net
stability.
The reason that this gets interesting is that for other root systems to
evolve and have any hope of commercial viability, they need to overcome
the NSI (and presumably the eventual ICANN dominant position).
It would possibly be in the intererests of individual domain name owners
to encourage policies in ICANN that would promote multiple root systems --
through technology or information (zone file, perhaps contact information)
sharing policies.
Some people do consider multiple roots to be anathema, many fear multiple
roots as a path to instability. I believe that if one examines the issue
one will find that instead, multiple roots lead to many good things at
some cost (a cost I believe to be small) of some increase in the ability
to resolve domain names in marginal TLDs.
--karl--
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