On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, at 14:37 [=GMT-0500], Keith Moore wrote: > > > let's put it another way. under the current organization if .com breaks > > > the other TLDs will still work. if we break the root, everything fails. > > Naturally there won't be 1 million TLDs all at once. We could start > > with a couple of hundreds. That would merely double the size of the > > root. > > It's not just the size of the root that matters - the distribution > of usage (and thus locality of reference) also matters. For those in databases: What runs more smoothly: a few subgroups in a main group with millions of records, or a few thousand subgroups with thousands of records? > The point is that if removing constraints on the root causes problems > (and there are reasons to believe that it will) we can't easily go back > to the way things were before. Sure, call it a testbed, like the IDN-testbed of VeriSign.
