Re: Re[2]: [ga] a quote from Lynn

["John Palmer" <jp@ADNS.NET>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>
To: "L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>
Cc: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 6:19 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [ga] a quote from Lynn


> Hello L,
>
> Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 12:14:32 PM, L Gallegos wrote:
> > In actuality, Lynn's statement is good.  There should not be any
> > duplication, that's all.  It has nothing to do with whether you
> > choose one root over another.  When you want to go to nic.biz,
> > you should always get to the ARNI .biz registry, not Nuelevel.
> > When you want to go to computers.biz, you should always see the
> > same one.  That much should always be true.
>
> > What he is trying to say is that there should be only the USG root,
> > but he misses the point that there will always be more than one
> > root.  Universality is the uniqueness of the domain throughout all
> > roots.
>
> Under your position above, there is no reason for multiple roots, if
> they all contain the same data, there is no inherent benefit to
> multiple root systems.
>
> I have to say, this argument doesn't help your claims any, Leah.
>
>
The benefit is stability, William. The more root networks out there, the
less chance that there
will be a catastrophic failure (ever hear of "common mode" failuer - aka
Three Mile Island)?

Also, regional roots can offer local TLDs that are not available in other
areas of the world.

More root servers, scattered in more places means that less network
bandwidth is taken
up by DNS queries. User response time is faster since they are able to hit
local roots rather
than one that may be many hops away.

John

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