David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: >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-scaling-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
Note my reply to Owen. --jra -- Sent from my HTC Supersonic with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.