[9202] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NEWDOM: The Root 64 Challenge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Fleming)
Wed May 7 21:14:57 1997
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
To: "'Michael Dillon'" <michael@memra.com>
Cc: "'edns-discuss@MCS.Net'" <edns-discuss@Mcs.Net>,
"'namedroppers@internic.net'" <namedroppers@internic.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'newdom@ar.com'"
<newdom@ar.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 19:54:36 -0500
On Wednesday, May 07, 1997 12:23 PM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael@memra.com] wrote:
@ 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?
Maybe the ISP/C could take this on as a project
and keep a running list on their web site.
@ How will these people be chosen?
First-come, first-serve...?...I do not think there
are close to 2,048 TLDs with registries.
@ What criteria will they use to limit their list?
First-come, first-serve....?
@
@ > 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.
@
These are just Root Name Servers...
expanding from 9 legacy servers to 64
seems like a step in the right direction.
If you like, just have 8 rows of 8.
A Confederation can be a single row.
--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
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