[lir-wg] Important Informational Message - root.zone change

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lars Marowsky-Bree" <lmb at in-addr.de>
To: "Jim Fleming" <JimFleming at Ameritech.Net>
Cc: "'RIPE DNS WG'" <dns-wg at ripe.net>; "'RIPE LIR WG'" <lir-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [lir-wg] Important Informational Message - root.zone change


> On 2002-11-05T11:13:52,
>    Jim Fleming <JimFleming at ameritech.net> said:
> 
> > With no IN-ADDR.IE zone, it is easy to spot the ones slated to be phased
> > out.
> > http://www.analogx.com/cgi-bin/cgidig.exe?DNS=205.214.45.10&Query=in-addr.ie&Type=255&submit=Lookup
> > 
> > With so few "slots" open in the legacy root servers, only a limited number
> > of TLDs can be supported.
> 
> Can you translate that to English please?
> 

"Experts" have apparently been paid (or had their arms twisted) to lie to the U.S. Government
and tell them that the 32-bit legacy root servers are under attack, are over-loaded, etc. and can only
handle a limited number of TLDs. That of course has been orchestrated by the lobbyists who do not
want more TLDs, for obvious reasons. Since obviously it is easy to show an ASCII zone file to any
clueless politician and explain how it can have a lot of entries, the "experts" turn to the operational
mysteries of the DNS and claim the sky will fall if the roots are over-loaded with "traffic" resulting
from new TLDs. Given that things are working, it is hard for the experts to claim that a couple
hundred TLDs do not work. 256 is a good number at the moment. Of course, as the need arises to
have less and less TLDs, because of the fictitious load and operational concerns, that 256 will have
to be reduced, as existing TLDs are removed. The same mentality can of course be used to show that
ultimately, only one operating system can be supported or only one computer language.

The lobbyists will not likely stop until they have reduced the TLDs to something they can understand
and control. Starting at 256 it might seem that they would work down one by one. It seems more
likely with the current climate that they would go for broke and declare that only TLDs with signed
contracts can remain. Certainly, signed contracts, and $1 per domain, per year, fees will help to make
those operational and load concerns vanish. It looks like there are less than 32 TLDs with signed
contracts and money flowing to the right people.

What 32 TLDs do you think should be in the legacy root servers ?


Jim Fleming
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