Thank you jfc Lou On 8/23/2012 7:51 AM, JFC Morfin wrote: > At 05:30 23/08/2012, Horacio T. Cadiz wrote: >> On 08/23/2012 09:44 AM, McTim wrote: >>> My org makes the DNS server software that is FOSS and has the ~80% >>> of the >>> DNS server software market. >> >> Three cheers for BIND! B-) > > I would not qualify the "installed basis" as a "market". This kind of > teminology introduces confusion we want to clarify. It is true that > ISC sells support, and there is therefore a market for BIND paying > support. > > Wikipedia defines a market as: "A *market* is one of many varieties of > systems <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System>, institutions > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution>, procedures > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure_%28term%29> , social relations > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_relation> and infrastructures > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure> whereby parties engage > in exchange. While parties may exchange goods and services by barter > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter>, most markets rely on sellers > offering their goods or services (including labor) in exchange for > money <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money> from buyers. It can be said > that a market is the process by which the prices of goods and services > are established. For a market to be competitive, there must be more > than a single buyer or seller. It has been suggested that two people > may trade, but it takes at least three persons to have a market, so > that there is competition on at least one of its two sides." > > I think we all agree to wish the DNS never be a market. > > > This being said, the "DNS" is a confusing term because it is at the > same time: > > 1. a network application (layer OSI 7) that resolves domain names into > IP addresses. > 2. the network protocol to dialong with the applications wich operate > that service. > 3. the architecture followed to build that applications and their > related tools. > 4. a DDDS (a kind of distributed dynamic database system) > 5. a market organized by ICANN > 6. a general digital naming syntax for the whole digital ecosystem > ... etc. > > jfc