John C Klensin wrote:
What do
you think would happen to that recommendation, and the benefits
it affords, if the size of the root zone increased by an order
of magnitude or so?
2 orders? 20K?
No, sorry. Think 3-4 orders of magnitude.
Really.
Let me explain: I'm not against more TLDs. Quite the opposite. (I appointed by
Postel to participate in the pre-ICANN committee tasked with increasing the number.)
But there is a paradigmatic difference between a TLD defined and operated to
mediate on behalf of a general and diverse population, versus one constrained to
a narrow and controlled constituency, such as a single company.
The number of the latter is quite large. And by that I mean *really* large.
And all of the questions I asked 10 years ago said that TLDs on that latter
scale would be problematic to the root.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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