Re: [ga] Re: Root server traffic

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:04 23/11/2007, Joe Baptista wrote:
> Think about it folks - that 50 million users accessing TLDs outside 
> the IANA deprecated root. Anytime those users communicate with other 
> using those URLs - bingo the roots get a request for something they 
> don't know. And I suspect 50 millions users associated with those 
> TLDs are causing alot of error traffic at the IANA roots. Of course 
> no one has performed a root analysis in years that has been public 
> so we'll never know. Thats why I speculate the error rate has gone 
> up significantly from the 98% error originally reported by CAIDA in 
> my article. Today its probably 99.99999 .... or something like that
Joe,
the Chinese name users do not hit the public root, except if they did 
not set their PC properly when abroad. Please remember that Chinese 
names are like "kid.us": created by local law. Chinese ISP resolve 
them, so do many ISP round the world with a Chinese community. The 
Chinese Government also distributed more than two hundred millions 
plug-in for people calling from abroad. These plug-in translate the 
Chinese names to the .cn supported by the NTIA and all the other roots.
An overlooked IDNA problem as documented by IETF and ICANN are the 
typos. The more complex/new are names the more typos you can have.
What should be avoided is to consider that the ICANN/NTIA root is 
anything technically special. It is a root feature as any other 
(actually it is the one with the worst ROI: the slimest for the 
biggest budget). What ever the root they have the same technical 
problems and economy (they do not cost to the root administrator - 
dont ask me where ICANN can spend its money").
As Vint said once, the Internet true root is the one with the largest 
number of users. This makes the GSMA "alt-root" (GSM Providers 
Association) to be "the" Internet root 
http://www.gsmworld.com/about/vision.shtml with 2 billion users and ".gprs".
jfc