Re: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You)

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> > It's not just the size of the root that matters - the distribution
> > of usage (and thus locality of reference) also matters.
> 
> For those in databases: What runs more smoothly: a few subgroups in a
> main group with millions of records, or a few thousand subgroups with
> thousands of records?

while you are asking questions, you might as well ask others: 
which scales better?  which is more failure-tolerant?

> > The point is that if removing constraints on the root causes problems
> > (and there are reasons to believe that it will) we can't easily go back
> > to the way things were before.
> 
> Sure, call it a testbed, like the IDN-testbed of VeriSign.

please don't use VeriSign's abuse of DNS to justify further abuse.

Keith