Re: Classes other then IN

> Beyond the technical aegis of DNS there is the perhaps
> less tangible ideal or some sense of freedom.

 Fighting a political battle with technical weapons does not work.

 Technical weapons can be used by every side. Sometimes freedom wins
(TCP/IP vs. MSN), sometimes it doesn't (LDAP vs. Active Directory).
 The whole purpose of GNU was to fight a political war. It accomplished
its goals quite well. And it's also a technical mess that could probably
match Microsoft Windows, because it was designed with some idea of freedom
in mind, instead of software quality (no matter what die-hard GNU fans
might say).

 And everytime, the user loses, because protocols are made more complex
and hard to implement, and every new piece of software introduces new bugs.

Also, when complexity increases, it becomes difficult for alternative
implementors to maintain free software. Look at web browsers: there is
NO good free web browser out there, because it's extremely hard to write
a browser nowadays (*), and only big companies with huge manpower can
afford it. So, waging political wars on technical grounds is not a good
strategy for a defender of freedom.

 Please keep political issues *separate* from technical issues. I am not
saying they are not important; I am saying it is also important to avoid
misusing communication protocols and software by assigning them
non-technical goals.

(*) No, Mozilla Firefox is not good. Needing a power plant and more than
200 megabytes of RAM to start, then randomly crashing, should not even be
considered *acceptable* for a computer program that's supposed to display
web pages.

-- 
 Laurent