NEWDOM: The Root 64 Challenge
Michael Dillon
michael at memra.com
Thu May 8 00:23:33 UTC 1997
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:
> Imagine that the board can be arranged so that
> the servers that are "nearest" to each other are
> near each other on the board. If you pick any
> square on the board, it has exactly 8 neighbors
> assuming the board wraps at the edges and is
> really mapped to a sphere.
When you wrap the edges of a chessboard, it maps to a torus, *NOT* a
sphere.
> 1. Develop a MERGED list of ALL of the Top Level
> Domains that are used any where in the world by
> any TLD Registry and limit the list to 2,048 names.
Who will develop this list?
How will these people be chosen?
What criteria will they use to limit their list?
> 4. Deploy 8 Root Name Server Confederations
> of 8 servers each and figure out the optimal
> arrangement on an 8 by 8 grid based on network
> connections.
Internet topology is too complex to map to an 8 by 8 grid.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael at memra.com
The bottom line is track record. Not track tearing. Not track derailing.
But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms.
-- Randy Bush
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