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

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net> Tue, 08 July 2008 01:14 UTC

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John C Klensin wrote:
>      What do
> you think would happen to that recommendation, and the benefits
> it affords, if the size of the root zone increased by an order
> of magnitude or so?  


2 orders?  20K?

No, sorry.  Think 3-4 orders of magnitude.

Really.

Let me explain: I'm not against more TLDs.  Quite the opposite.  (I appointed by 
Postel to participate in the pre-ICANN committee tasked with increasing the number.)

But there is a paradigmatic difference between a TLD defined and operated to 
mediate on behalf of a general and diverse population, versus one constrained to 
a narrow and controlled constituency, such as a single company.

The number of the latter is quite large.  And by that I mean *really* large.

And all of the questions I asked 10 years ago said that TLDs on that latter 
scale would be problematic to the root.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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