On 2012-05-16, at 02:04, paul vixie wrote: > On 5/15/2012 11:56 PM, David Conrad wrote: >> ... In the context of this blog posting, I personally think having >> folks (ISPs in particular) pre-fetch/mirror the root zone in their >> caches is the right answer to pretty much any useful definition of >> "fair and equitable" related to serving the root zone :-). > > now that i've been reminded that the SOA timers are shorter than the > update frequency and that no NOTIFY is required for up-to-date stealth > slave service; and now that the root is signed, making it unlikely that > stealth copies will be amended or that their namespaces will be > overloaded with other stealth slaves... i agree with drc here. let's > start encouraging widespread stealth slavery for the root zone.
I'm not convinced that this is a good idea. Right now we have a root server system that is measurable, and that is operated by people who understand the implications of operational choices, and who are a small enough group that coordination and communication with other actors in the root zone management is practical. Ad-hoc distribution of root zone operation to an unbounded set of operators would result in a system that was much more challenging to measure, that was operated by people whose focus was (properly) elsewhere, and with whom reliable communication was probably not possible. I am generally in favour of decentralisation, but in this specific instance I can't see much benefit to offset the deficiencies. Joe _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
