Re: [wg-c] Initial Numbers

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

This discussion is ludicrously out of place when one considers that the additions to the root we are considering in this WG,
at this time, are a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10. No issues of scaling are posed by such additions, and no serious person
has ever proposed that there are such issues.

Paul Mockapetris was on the new TLDs panel in Los Angeles and confirmed this view.

Kevin J. Connolly wrote:

> Well, Christian Huitema presented a paper at ISOC-NY last Spring
> on this very subject.  The more TLDs there are, the greater the
> likelihood that one will need to query the root in order to resolve
> a domain name.  This is (according to Dr. Huitema, who, I believe,
> knows a few things more than the average bear about the DNS) as
> fundamental as 1+1 = 2.  So, what's the flaw?
> >
> Dr. Huitema's paper, which was based on
> empirical research, reported that between 13%
> and 16% of total web latency was due to DNS
> latency, and that there is no reliable, empirical
> evidence on the elasticity of DNS latency in
> respect of enlarging the root.
>