IANA did a good job for a long time, but it did not grow with the Internet and didn't adjust to the new effects of Internet growth and the fact that name space was too small, ... Everything is at this point a fine mess -- the DNS mess.
Quotes about dns (5 Quotes)
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
The secure and reliable operation of the . com registry and the DNS are too important to the international and Internet community to be placed at risk by delaying the approval of the proposed . com registry agreement or yielding to the threats of a few who may be willing to place their interests ahead of those of the larger Internet community.
Everyone seems to think that the D.N.S. system is a big deal, but it's not the heartbeat of the Internet. Who controls the flow of the ocean Nobody controls it, and it works just fine. There are some things that can't be controlled and should be left distributed.
There really are a huge number of different stakeholders, some with complementary, most with conflicting, requirements -- the old Internet guard, the trademark lobbyists, those that see the DNS as a license to mint money, those that see NSI as bogey men, the freedom fighters trying to build a whole new worldwide government (yes, government) through this process -- oh, and don't forget the 240-plus country registries trying to deliver service to their nation states.