In reply to 02 Feb message from John Charles Broomfield
<jbroom@outremer.com>:
> Go one step further up (as proposed by the grass roots) and
>you're "only"
>taking care (with the current status-quo) of around 200 country
>code TLDs
>and the other 7 (COM/NET/ORG/GOV/EDU/MIL/INT). All these in
>general DO have
>more than the 2 nameservers that most COM SLDs have, so (my guess)
>we would
>be looking at something over 1000 lines.
This is exactly how the eDNS does (did?) it. They include(d) every
active TLD's name server in their "root" or db.cache file (including the
200 country codes, and each iTLD) and added new eDNS TLDs as they came
on line ( and managed name server changes, etc as well).
All handled by one person (Karl Denninger) using an authenticated
PPG-based email update routine. AlterNIC is not the correct model in
this case. Problem is (was?), eDNS had to convince every ISP and
corporate name server manager in the world to set it as root instead of
NSI's a.root-servers.net
This never happened in any significant numbers...
I suppose if the GRS setup came "pre-loaded" in the freeware versions of
BIND that most people use, that would be a starting point. That would
also mean convincing IETF or whomever to set GRS as a "standard" or
convincing the hardware vendors who ship pre-installed versions of BIND
with their OS's (Solaris, HP-UX, MS-DNS, IBM's OS's) to also include
that pre-loaded GRS-based "db.cache" file. Most systems managers just
let that cache file self-install right now along with BIND and let well
enough alone...
So I'd think Paul Vixi (the BIND source code manager) and the IETF are
the first points of contact for determining where the BIND cache files
will come from and what will be in them, etc.
Personally, I'd take an IETF process over a White House/Dept. of
Commerce process any day. Anybody want to start an IETF working group on
this? Or convince a current WG to take it on post haste??
Here's where having a stock of goodwill in the Internet community and an
impression of "openness" on our part would come in pretty handy <smile>
Regards,
Bill
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