Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] Computerworld apparently has changed DNS protocol

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Well - her name was attached to the article, so I didn't think
it was inappropriate to mention gender.  And no, shes not the
first journalist to mangle words or misunderstand, or misrepresent.

--bill


On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:56:07PM +0100, Alfred Hvnes wrote:
> Bill Manning wrote:
> 
> >       cool eh?  although I suspect she ment responses.
> >
> > --bill
> 
> Yet responses usually did not go *to* the root servers so far.
> I'm getting confused.    :-)  :-)
> 
> Did anybody ever have a prejudice against journalists?
> -- reconsider, please!  :-)
> 
>   Alfred.
> 
> P.S.: Disclosing that the writer was female seemed politically
>       incorrect to me, so I purposely avoided this detail.
> 
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:58:41PM +0100, Alfred Hvnes wrote:
> >> Interesting News!
> >>
> >> There must be a hidden trick to introduce DNS Jumbograms we just
> >> forgot to mention ....
> >>
> >>
> >> In a press article [1] entitled
> >>     "Root zone changes may shake up Net in Africa",
> >> Computerworld wrote:
> >>
> >> | From January 2010, ICANN will implement DNSSEC -- using a technique
> >> | also known as root signing -- on the root zone, which will affect
> >> | the performance of the Internet.  Currently, queries from domain
> >> | servers to the root are 512 kilobytes or less, but DNSSEC will make
> >>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> | them larger because it introduces new signatures and keys as part
> >>   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> | of the security features.
> >>
> >>
> >> :-}
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>   http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140123/Root_zone_changes_may_shake_up_Net_in_Africa
> >