[dns-wg] Re: WG response to root scaling studies

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:02:10AM +0100,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote 
 a message of 29 lines which said:

> I had, personally, many things to say. More on that later.

OK, apparently, I had less time than anticipated. Anyway, a few
comments on the whole "root zone scaling studies" thing:

* I liked a lot the OARC report
<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17sep09-en.htm>
because it is mostly made of hard facts and figures, actual
measurements, not vague guesses "This thing could go wrong".

* The terms set by ICANN (for instance
<http://www.icann.org/en/committees/dns-root/root-scaling-study-tor-05may09-en.htm>)
mixes up completely different things, such as:
   * IPv6 (already done, and working fine despite the FUD that delayed
   the entry of AAAA records in the root for a long time)
   * IDN (zero technical consequences for the root,
   off-topic for a "root zone scaling" report)
   * DNSSEC (real technical issues)
   * more TLD (may be a false problem or not, depending on the actual
   number. I was shocked at the DNS meeting to hear a participant
   making repeated references to one million TLD, a ridiculous number,
   that could never be reached, due to ICANN constraints 
   <http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-3-en.htm#files>).

So, there is little a technical WG like the DNS WG could say about
these reports. The question is so badly phrased that noone can really
reply to it.