[9200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NEWDOM: The Root 64 Challenge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed May 7 20:56:46 1997
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:23:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
cc: "'newdom@ar.com'" <newdom@ar.com>,
"'edns-discuss@MCS.Net'" <edns-discuss@Mcs.Net>,
"'namedroppers@internic.net'" <namedroppers@internic.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BC5B16.0FE05720@webster.unety.net>
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:
> Imagine that the board can be arranged so that
> the servers that are "nearest" to each other are
> near each other on the board. If you pick any
> square on the board, it has exactly 8 neighbors
> assuming the board wraps at the edges and is
> really mapped to a sphere.
When you wrap the edges of a chessboard, it maps to a torus, *NOT* a
sphere.
> 1. Develop a MERGED list of ALL of the Top Level
> Domains that are used any where in the world by
> any TLD Registry and limit the list to 2,048 names.
Who will develop this list?
How will these people be chosen?
What criteria will they use to limit their list?
> 4. Deploy 8 Root Name Server Confederations
> of 8 servers each and figure out the optimal
> arrangement on an 8 by 8 grid based on network
> connections.
Internet topology is too complex to map to an 8 by 8 grid.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
The bottom line is track record. Not track tearing. Not track derailing.
But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms.
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