Re: .COM Clusters are Not RSCs

[Karl Denninger <karl at mcs.net>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 12:42:31AM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> > All this is to say that, yes, there are risks of ambiguity, but not
> > due to RSC.  The risk comes when there are disputed TLDs.
> 
> Another risk is that people will start a 'land grab' on TLDs similar
> to what's happened with subdomains of .COM.  Any rules for allocating
> new TLDs that are based solely on competition, whether they be
> "first-come-first-served" or "my lawyers are bigger than your lawyers"
> or even "we have nukes, you don't" robs the net community of any hope
> of reasonable organization of TLD space.

Easily dealt with.  You can have "N" TLDs (where "N" is some small number,
say, three or four) until you demonstrate through a public audit process
that you have at least "X" registrants per TLD in use on average.

The cost of that audit (ie: calling up Arthur Andersen) is borne by the
registry.  Is this onerous?  No.  Let's assume that you have to be able to
document 20,000 SLD registrations in a TLD to get another TLD assigned to you,
and you started with three.  Let's further assume that the audit costs you 
$20,000 to have done. 

That's $0.30/SLD for the audit.  Is this a significant cost center?  You
tell me.

> Another risk is that the number of TLDs will grow so large that TLD
> queries are no longer likely to be in cache.  This has implications
> for response time and reliability of DNS, as well as bandwidth usage.
> 
> Keith

That's a bald-faced lie.  COM/NET/ORG are on the roots right now.  Forcing 
NSI to remove them to their own machines, and replacing them with 15,000 
TLDs (1% of the current load they carry) is the best possible single
performance improvement we could make in the DNS system.

Right now ALL COM/NET/ORG queries have to hit the roots to get the NS lines
for the next level down.  You would increase *ROOT SERVER* cache coherency
by 99%, decrease system load by 99%, decrease RAM and processor requirements
by similar amounts, and massively IMPROVE service to the end user.

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