On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, at 14:37 [=GMT-0500], Keith Moore wrote:
let's put it another way. under the current organization if .com breaks
the other TLDs will still work. if we break the root, everything fails.
Naturally there won't be 1 million TLDs all at once. We could start
with a couple of hundreds. That would merely double the size of the
root.
It's not just the size of the root that matters - the distribution
of usage (and thus locality of reference) also matters.
For those in databases: What runs more smoothly: a few subgroups in a
main group with millions of records, or a few thousand subgroups with
thousands of records?
The point is that if removing constraints on the root causes problems
(and there are reasons to believe that it will) we can't easily go back
to the way things were before.
Sure, call it a testbed, like the IDN-testbed of VeriSign.