Re: [ga] Vint: on the basic rationale for adding TLDs and any contra-indications

["M. Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl,
Interesting computations (using RIPE and other serious sources 
published figures):

- If _every_and_more_ users (1 billion) got a copy of the root file 
every month the root related traffic would _decrease_ by 90%.

- 70 updates of the root file a year. Hundred of thousands of 
downloaded copies not by far not always updated. Maybe 200 or more 
versions in use. ICANN is the primary (and only) alt-root.

- a stop of the root server system would address the bugs leading to 
97.5% of illegitimate calls. The impact on the Internet usage could 
be low or nil: people would quickly learn from TV or friend's how to 
build themselves a fool proof config if

At 18:39 17/12/2005, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, M. Morfin wrote:
> > 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.

ICANN really exists because Windoz does not support an easy 
nameserver. Otherwise we would have thousands of TLDs and free DNs as 
part of low cost intelligent network services.
jfc