I'm not sure what they're up to these days, but I remember when they got started (by some guys from K5, IIRC). It was an alternative root, and not any more dec

I'm not sure what they're up to these days, but I remember when they got started (by some guys from K5, IIRC). It was an alternative root, and not any more decentralized in the technical sense than "regular" DNS. More responsive to users and democratic, but the structure was exactly the same. There were a bunch of other alternative roots that have taken on ICANN at one point or another, although it's been a long time since I've tried any of them. It strikes me as a doomed effort unless you can get some ISPs somewhere to buy in and point users towards your root rather than ICANN's. Most users aren't going to change their DNS settings (most probably don't know how), so it seems difficult to achieve any sort of critical mass of users.