[142120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sat Jun 18 00:27:08 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <29272713.660.1308364822544.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:26:08 -1000
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jay,
On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> and the root operators may throw
> their hands up in the air if anyone asks them to have anything in =
their
> zone except glue -- rightly, I think; it's not a degree of complexity
> that's compatible with the required stability of the root zone.
I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that =
it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root zone =
contains. They distribute what the ICANN/NTIA/Verisign gestalt =
publishes.
> Especially since the root zone actually lives in 14 different places.
It lives in _far_ more places than that.
> No, anything that requires the root zone to be fluid[1] is going to =
cause even
> more fundamental engineering problems than I've been positing so far =
tonight.
=
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/summary-of-impact-root-zone-scali=
ng-06oct10-en.pdf
Folks of varying levels of technical, business, and political expertise =
have been working on the expansion of the root zone for more than a =
decade. I might suggest that instead of assuming people haven't thought =
of the issues you are raising, you might want to take the opposite =
approach and ask for pointers for the analyses.
> [1]requiring updates in anything smaller than days. How often does =
the
> root zone actually change; anyone got a pointer to stats on that?
The root zone is updated two times a day. Relevant folks have stated =
this will not be changing.
Regards,
-drc
