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Not sure I agree. If FF & Chrome both supported it...it'd be in effect in < 5 years total.

Just look how quickly DoH is being rolled out, or Google's QUIC.

Realistically if Google, Mozilla, Cloudflare, Apple, Microsoft, and a few others agree that this move is bad, and wanted to stand up a new .org TLD...they could, and I don't believe it'd be illegal (IANAL).

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Web is only small part of internet

Yes, but most of the internet is exposed to users via the web anyways. OSs would need to follow suit, sure — to make everything that’s not a browser work so that the alternative lookup mechanism is used instead of traditional DNS. How long do you think that would take? Not too long methinks.

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