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

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

> The latest CAIDA study says:
> 
> * The overall query traffic experienced by the roots continues to
>   grow. The observed 2007 query rate and client rate was 1.5-3X above
>   their observed values in 2006
> 
> * The proportion of invalid traffic, i.e., DNS pollution, hitting the
>   roots is still high, over 99% of the queries should not even be sent
>   to the root servers. We found an extremely strong correlation both
>   years: the higher the query rate of a client, the lower the fraction
>   of valid queries.
> 
> That suggests that if the legit traffic increased by an order of
> magnitude, it would still be down in the noise compared to the junk.
> Conversely, if root server traffic is an issue, getting networks to
> clean up their DNS traffic would be much more effective than limiting
> the number of TLDs.

sounds good.  and why wouldn't "cleaning up DNS traffic" include 
refusing to refer any single-label query (for any record type other than 
NS, say) to an upstream server?

Keith
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