[wg-c] bounced, reposted for Paul Garrin

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

>From: Paul Garrin <pg@lokmail.net>
>To: wg-c@dnso.org
>Subject: Re: [wg-c] reposted for Harald Tveit Alvestrand 
>Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:20:44 -0500
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>David,
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>> At 05:13 PM 12/19/1999 , Paul Garrin wrote:
>> >There is no need to fragment the internet.  Multiple roots
>> >can and should exist, but must be coordinated.  This is not
>> 
>> If they are coordinated, they are not "roots" in the real sense.
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>I would say in the "legacy" sense, not the "real" sense.
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>> Or, rather, the coordination authority is really the root.
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>A coordination authority would be applicable in the administrative
>sense, but not necessarily in the technical sense.  Administrative
>coordination is important for quality control and accreditation of
>operators and in the setting of and enforcement of standards.  This
>could be done by ICANN, or it could be the IETF or the IAB.
>The most important criteria rather than who does it is that is is
>done with competence and understanding of the underlying technical
>issues, and with fairness.
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>The technical coordination is the duty of the peering networks
>that operate the decentralized and coordinated root systems in
>accordance with the standards set through engineering and development
>of the shared root system.  Decentralizing the root (or better,
>the decentralized control of the root.zone) is easier than the
>decentralized sharing of TLD operations, assuming that updates
>to the root.zone (adding TLDs) happen at a low frequency and
>updates to the TLD zones (adding SLDs) happens at a much higher
>frequency.  Decentralized sharing of TLD zones is technically
>more difficult and demanding to reduce the number of collisons,
>or conflicting applications for the same sld strings, but it is
>not an impossible task to achieve.
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>> >only technically possible, but necessary to provide for the
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>> Please explain the details of the insight you have in these matters, which 
>> permits you such a basic difference of technical analysis from that of the 
>> IAB.
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>I don't make such grand claims as to have more experience than the IAB.
>I did however discuss the issues with Paul Mockapetris at length some
>time ago and his response was that competent computer scientists could
>build it.  I have such talent on my team and we are doing it.
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>> It would be helpful to provide some history of your design and 
>> implementation with large-scale distributed systems, as well as operations 
>> experience with them, to contrast with that of the IAB's somewhat awesome 
>> aggregate experience.
>> 
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>Again, I don't make such grand assertions.  However, my engineers,
>one of whom is a PhD candidate at Columbia U. and has worked for
>NASA and DARPA and who holds several patents, and another who has worked for 
>Lucent, are competent in these areas and are working on just such a system
>which we will open up to a testbed in the coming months.  If you are
>interested in participating please keep in touch with us and we will
>keep you up to date on our progress.
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>regards,
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>Paul Garrin
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