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

[Marc Schneiders <marc at schneiders.org>]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, at 14:37 [=GMT-0500], Keith Moore wrote:

> > > let's put it another way.  under the current organization if .com breaks
> > > the other TLDs will still work.   if we break the root, everything fails.

> > Naturally there won't be 1 million TLDs all at once. We could start
> > with a couple of hundreds. That would merely double the size of the
> > root.
>
> 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?

> 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.