DNSSEC

A DNS tree can be rooted anywhere people will use it. Good examples of this in connection with
specialised services are DNSBLs and DNSWLs . These can contain information about every IP
address or domain on the Net. This makes the current root operators subject to a kind of
competition, in the sense that if an alternate DNS root server organisation starts to offer
greater value in connection with generic DNS services, the political interest of the current
root operators will be forced to offer users what they want or become irrelevant. Presumably
this would also apply to unnecessary delays in rolling out DNSSEC - if the DNSSEC standards
and implementations are considered stable and usable enough for more than experimental rollout
based on alternate root servers.