[142264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Jun 20 15:02:40 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <86zklc7ka9.fsf@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:01:44 -1000
To: Robert E. Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 20, 2011, at 2:35 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:
>> what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data =
from
>> modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone?
Yep. That is an area that has been identified as needing additional =
study (see comments by kc, summarized in =
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/summary-analysis-root-zone-scalin=
g-impact-21feb11-en.pdf).=20
> Things can get hairy with high update
> rates, so I'd encourage ICANN to dig in its heels about the 2x per day
> update rate
I don't know anyone who is pushing to increase the update rate of the =
root zone.
> An interesting question is what the load effects will be on the root.
One of the studies relevant to this was done by DNS-OARC. See =
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/ssr/root-zone-augementation-analysis-17sep0=
9-en.pdf. There was an intent to do some follow-on studies, but from =
ICANN's perspective the interesting scaling questions turned out to be =
related to the provisioning side, so focus moved away from impact on the =
root servers.
Regards,
-drc
