On Sunday, June 21, 1998 5:48 AM, Jean-Christophe Praud[SMTP:jc.praud§ludexpress.com] wrote: <snip> § §Anyway, with more root servers sharing the load, and BETTER located thru §the world, all internet users should benefit from new RSCs. § I agree. Also, with the Grass Root Server (GRS) approach, some ISPs load the root zone information directly into their machines via their own files. This allows their name servers to avoid the communication with the legacy Root Server Confederation. Over the past few years, a certain amount of load has been taken off of the legacy Root Servers. If someone passed a law and forced all ISPs to once again use the legacy Root Servers it would be interesting to see the change in traffic. We are all benefiting from the advancements that have been slowly made away from the legacy Root Servers. One of the problems with the GRS approach is that ISPs have to keep their own root zone up to date. This can be easily automated by pulling the entire root zone file from the InterNIC. In the IPv8 approach, we are working to automate this via the "soft root". In that approach, we can go out to the 8 regions (G0-G7) and query the DNS to find out what TLDs are active. When doing that we can pick up their TLD Name Server information to dynamically build the equivalent of the root zone file. Various people around the world are working on the software to do this. This should make life easier for ISPs that want everything to run on auto-pilot. Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com 1998 - The Year of the C+§Received on Sun Jun 21 1998 - 23:15:00 UTC
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