because of excessive travel, i did not have a chance to help update draft-lee-dnsop-scalingroot before the cutoff for ietf hawaii. here's more background on that draft, sent first to my blog because i've heard from so many policy makers about my radical mention of adding some root name servers. scalingroot-01 will elide that text.
> In Internet Draft draft-lee-dnsop-scalingroot-00.txt, I described with > my coauthors a method of distributing the task of providing DNS Root > Name Service both globally and universally. In this article I will > explain the sense of the proposal in a voice meant to be understood by > a policy-making audience who may in many cases be less technically > adept than the IETF DNSOP Working Group for whom the scalingroot-00 > draft was crafted. I will also apologize for a controversial > observation concerning the addition of new root name servers, because > while in truth and in fact I am proposing to add millions of root name > server operators, I am in no way proposing to add only seven. It's my > hope that the actual proposal (millions of new root name server > operators), while having far greater policy implications than the > non-proposal (adding only seven root name server operators), will be > uncontroversial when understood in its full context. > > ... (http://www.circleid.com/posts/20141107_secure_unowned_hierarchical_anycast_root_name_service_and_apologia/) -- Paul Vixie _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
