RE: Structuring the Root

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net>]

On Wednesday, April 22, 1998 2:56 PM, Peter Deutsch[SMTP:peterd at Bunyip.Com] wrote:
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@> >If you want the engineering reason for why IPv8 has
@> >2,048 it is because there are 11 extra addressing bits
@> >and 2 to the 11th power is 2,048. If you want to know
@> >why there are only 11 extra addressing bits, I can
@> >go into detail, but the bottom line is that this is all
@> >that could be squeezed into the existing IPv4 header.
@> >If you want more, use IPv6.
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@> Why are TLDs tied to IP numbers? That is the job of DNS and the root-server
@> for the TLD. Direct mapping of TLD slots into DNS name-space would be a
@> HUGE mistake.
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@Right on. I fully agree with you on this point.
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Peter,

Thanks for pointing out that we should design a flexible
system that accomodates many people's creative uses
for TLDs. I claim there are some we have not seen because
it is so hard to get them into the legacy USG Root Name
Server Confederations. This has stifled R&D and turned
many away from the Internet, all because people are afraid
that a TLD will be created that makes money...

Geeez...using this logic, maybe people should not be allowed
to have children because we run the risk of having one of them
grow up to be successful...

Also...to clarify the TLD IP situation...the IPv8 Plan delegates
the large blocks of IP addresses for stewardship to the TLDs
for business reasons, not technical reasons...also, the IPv8
blocks are a full 32 bit space which is the size of the current
legacy Internet and it has hardly been used. With a resource
this large, it is hard to argue that it is tightly coupled to the
TLD from a DNS point of view. The stewards (trustees) of that
space could decide to have it managed such that it has nothing
to do with the TLD it is tied to for business reasons. That is
their choice. Likewise, the same can be said for the IPv4 blocks
that get placed under stewardship via the simple G:S algorithm.

If you have a better way to hand out billions of addresses, let
me know. In my opinion, they have to be given to people and
companies in the Registry Industry because they are the most
likely to have a clue or be willing to learn. At the moment, people
in the Registry Industry are huddled around TLDs and therefore
I feel we should leverage off of that natural attraction for business
reasons, not technical reasons.
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI