RE: [wg-c] FW: ADNS Press Release

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

That sort of traffic is rather easy to accomodate. The point is that there
are other root-registry operations getting ready to launch, on the launch
pad, or already launched. In the future, we will not have any choice but to
deal with multi-part roots. Technology follows business, which follows the
customer.

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R O E L A N D  M .  J .  M E Y E R



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 5:22 AM
> To: rmeyer@mhsc.com; Wg-C@Dnso. Org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] FW: ADNS Press Release
>
>
> At 12:49 02.03.00 -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
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> >R O E L A N D  M .  J .  M E Y E R
> >
> > > http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.030100/200610011.htm
>
> this is an alternate root proclaiming that they have reached 350.000 hits
> in its first month.
>
> For comparision, the ballpark figure for the "ICANN" root name servers is
> 3000 to 5000 requests per second per server - so the monthly figure there
> is around
> 101.088.000.000 (10E11) requests per month for all the 13 root
> name servers.
>
> The distance isn't that big - the traffic on ADNS just has to
> double 18 times.
>
>             Harald
>
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
>