Re: [ga] Vint: on the basic rationale for adding TLDs and any contra-indications
the real issue is to keep the TLD base updated. Not a big deal if you use a script collecting the data from the TLD Managers (there is today less than 70 root update a year). Actually, would someone develop a user smart resolver under Windows all this should be automated for every user, everyone having his own root. There used to be a system to do this called "Grass Roots" - it was web based, but through the use of cookies and stuff it retained per-user state. It presented the user with a list of TLDs, and where there were multiple ones of the same name, it presented the competing versions. You made your choices and voila, a zone file was created for you to use with bind on your own machines. Because it retained state, you could go back periodically and in a few seconds make a new zone file containing all the latest information. As you suggest (and as I have been suggesting as well), P2P technology is an interesting way of moving root zone files - right now, when compressed, they are about 16K bytes, smaller than the cutsie icons on most web pages. As for using Windoz for anything in an infrastructure role: I'll pass. --karl--
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