[dnssec-deployment] A gazillion new TLDs

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:35:14PM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> On Jun 28, 2008, at 02:32 +0200, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> >
> >	I'm worries about all the non-official machines serving the
> >	root.  Eventually largescale growth of the root will break these
> >	servers.
> >
> >	If ICANN had been brave it would have started the process of
> >	shutting down GTLDs.  There is no need for GTLDs.  They were
> >	a bad concept to begin with.
> 
> You're missing the winking smiley so everybody who reads this knows  
> you're joking.
> 
> Because you have said something so insane I know you're joking, but  
> someone else might assume you are serious, and then they would think  
> the DNSSEC people are a bunch of crazy Internet techies totally out of  
> touch with reality.
> 

	kind of makes me wonder a little bit, since the first delegations
	were roughly "gtlds".... if they were bad to begin with, and there
	is no need, then perhaps Mark is on to something!


--bill