> From: Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> > > HTTP, SMTP, ando other TCP transaction applications? Could the gTLD > > roots exist in anything like their current forms if DNS transactions > > cost as many CPU and stable storage computrons as an HTTP GET of > > a purely static page (even without TLS)? > > Excellent questions! Imagine if we measured stuff and found out!
Measurements are great, except when prefaced with polemics for simplistic and wrong solutions, whether "TCP fixes DNS," "just block ANY", or "authentication is the final ultimate solution to the spam problem," especially when the measurements seem to contradict the preface. As I said before, it's not clear to me that the slant of the first part was intentional. Maybe it was quick and dirty context for an informal blog posting that could have used reading for unintended advocacy as well as mundane copy editing, but didn't get enough of either because it was an informal blog posting. The bit about RRL hit a sore point, because of private discussions about efforts to re-educate RRL into the "TCP fixes DNS" party. It's important to point out the error of even unintentional advocacy of simplistic and wrong solutions. In the short run, mere facts don't change minds, but do slow the spread of the poison and can cure it in the long run. Vernon Schryver v...@rhyolite.com _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
