Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

[Marshall Eubanks <[e-mail]>]

On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Joe Abley wrote:

>
> On 7 Jul 2008, at 21:36, James Seng wrote:
>
>>> And all of the questions I asked 10 years ago said that TLDs on  
>>> that latter
>>> scale would be problematic to the root.
>>
>> Was that pre-Anycast or post-Anycast?
>
> There are plenty of examples of people hosting large, infrastructure- 
> type zones using servers and software that are conventional,  
> commodity choices. NSD and BIND9 are both quite capable of hosting  
> zones with single-digit millions of delegations without needing  
> special care and feeding, for example.
>
> Whether the DNS service for a zone is anycast or not has some, but  
> really not that much relevance when you're considering the risk of  
> an engorged root zone. I don't read anything in the layer-9 musings  
> I've seen so far to suggest that the bar to entry for new TLDs will  
> be so low that we'll see widespread TLD tasting and churn, for  
> example, sufficient to make far-flung anycast instances struggle to  
> keep up.

It seems to me that it might be better to turn that around :

The new TLD system should not allow for widespread TLD tasting and  
churn.

I worry about depending on artificial limits imposed by fees. ICANN  
will certainly be lobbied to lower their
fees; what if the fee in 2012 is $ 100 not $ 100,000 ?

Regards
Marshall

>
>
> I'm not suggesting that growth should be allowed to happen without  
> considering the technical consequences. However, I believe in  
> practice with the headroom in systems and network that root server  
> operators generally install anyway, there's considerable room for  
> growth and the general argument that growth in the root zone will  
> undermine stability sounds more like hysteria than science.
>
>
> Joe
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