ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

Mon Jun 20 19:01:44 UTC 2011

On Jun 20, 2011, at 2:35 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> writes:
>> what's new?  how about the operational technical effects, like data from
>> modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone?

Yep.  That is an area that has been identified as needing additional study (see comments by kc, summarized in http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/summary-analysis-root-zone-scaling-impact-21feb11-en.pdf). 

> Things can get hairy with high update
> rates, so I'd encourage ICANN to dig in its heels about the 2x per day
> update rate

I don't know anyone who is pushing to increase the update rate of the root zone.

> An interesting question is what the load effects will be on the root.

One of the studies relevant to this was done by DNS-OARC. See http://www.icann.org/en/topics/ssr/root-zone-augementation-analysis-17sep09-en.pdf.  There was an intent to do some follow-on studies, but from ICANN's perspective the interesting scaling questions turned out to be related to the provisioning side, so focus moved away from impact on the root servers.

Regards,
-drc