> On 11 Dec 2019, at 12:51, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> IMHO, this is by far the biggest issue with your proposal: TLDs change
> from one technical operator to another and, when it happens, all name
> servers change at once.

That’s not correct.

In principle, they could all change at once, In reality, they don’t. When 
making a change of this nature, established wisdom is to change half of the NS 
records (or their glue), wait a few days to see that all is well and then 
change the other half. I think IANA would try to persuade a TLD to do that if 
they came with a proposal to change all of the TLD's NS records in one 
transaction. Though if the TLD insisted, IANA would respect their choice.

Come to think of it, changing all of the NS records at once is generally a bad 
idea for any zone. That would probably only make sense when all of the existing 
name servers were dead or no longer serving the zone.


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