Hi All,

I am not at all opposed to eliminating the root domain. A couple of questions for Pete and the group:

1. Are you suggesting that at the national level the border elements are fully meshed together, or alternatively arranged in a big ring as Radhika is suggesting? 2. If so, when a new country "goes on-line" endpoints in the new country would not be reachable until the information is propagated in this fully meshed database (or inserted in the ring). 3. Same if, say France, had to switch its National H.323 Border Element from Paris to Lyons for one week. 4. Are you open to the idea of a global clearing house to resolve the address of border elements of countries which are currently not listed in the fully-meshed database.

Regards,

Santo Wiryaman Videoserver

---------- From: Pete Cordell [SMTP:pete.cordell@BT-SYS.BT.CO.UK] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 1998 10:20 AM To: ITU-SG16@mailbag.cps.INTEL.COM Subject: No root node

Dear All,

Apologies for not being on the last call, but...

I feel one really important issue with Santo's contribution is that we must remove the root domain. Having such a concept would give politicians and lawyers far too much work!!! I believe the notes that I put forward would allow the root node to be removed, and based on comments I heard from Jim, I believe what he is proposing would allow this too.

Regards,

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