On 04-Feb-99 A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> Milton,
>
>>The obvious problem with that is that two other parties contribute to the
> value
>>of the registration:
>
> There is a third most important party - the DNS server operator
> who with her/his peers, elect to point to particular root servers.
>
> Maybe the DNS server operators should bandy together and
> extract part of the "rent." :-)
I think that the following should be done :
1) ICANN should contract for the operation of the root servers, and they should
be compensated for the costs of operating them.
2) NSI should operate it's own nameservers for com/net/org/edu and they should
be independent of the root servers completely.
I Can't say for certain, but I would imagine some of the problems with the root
servers of late has been a result of the sheer mass of information they are
required to handle each day. Last time I checked, which was 8 months ago, the
com DNS zone was well over 350MB by itself.
NSI can develop secure methods for maintaining its own DNS servers, and for
updating the zone information. I've thought of a couple methods for managing
large zones such as this, for example, run each server as a "master" and each
server has a database of the current dns data. The main server will then feed
only changes to the databases, and the local server will then create the
flat zone file based on these changes, and this would not require the
transmission of hundreds of megabytes worth of dns zone. I am sure there are
many flaws in this plan, but the point is that if NSI operated their own
nameservers independent of the roots, they would have the ability to try and
develop a more efficient method of managing the data themselves, and would have
a vested interest in doing so.
This would alleviate much of the load on the root-servers themselves.
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04-Feb-99
Time: 15:33:40
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