on 7/30/2002 1:08 PM Keith Moore wrote:
If the overall number of lookups has not increased, there will be
fewer overall lookups for *existing* TLDs as well.
not from the resolvers to the roots. they'll each contribute one hit
per NS record that has timed out of their cache for the root zone,
regardless of how many queries they handle (>= 1 per zone).
50,000 stale cache hits for .foo today, with .bar gaining equal status
tomorrow -- but without an overall increase in user activity -- means that
there will not be 50,000 stale cache hits for .foo tomorrow. I'm not
saying that it will drop to 25k, but it would be less than 50k.
Realistically, there would have to be a significant number of *active*
properties at delegations under .bar for there to be parity between them,
and this is the least likely scenario given the current climate. Over a
ten+ year period this will certainly change, but the technology used to
process the root queries will also change.
Simply put, the act of adding new zones has no practical effect. Adding
additional queries through the use of application-specific data (eg, phone
numbers, certificates, and so forth) and adding additional agents that can
cause the overall number of queries to go up, those are the real threats.
I'm not going to continue this argument.
Sure, but such decisions still have to be made due to various
considerations including but not limited to root server load, and
moving that decision away from ICANN to another controversial
organization isn't likely to solve any problems that I can see.
I don't know why you think I am disagreeing with you about this.
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