North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NEWDOM: The Root 64 Challenge
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Jim Fleming wrote: > Imagine that the board can be arranged so that > the servers that are "nearest" to each other are > near each other on the board. If you pick any > square on the board, it has exactly 8 neighbors > assuming the board wraps at the edges and is > really mapped to a sphere. When you wrap the edges of a chessboard, it maps to a torus, *NOT* a sphere. > 1. Develop a MERGED list of ALL of the Top Level > Domains that are used any where in the world by > any TLD Registry and limit the list to 2,048 names. Who will develop this list? How will these people be chosen? What criteria will they use to limit their list? > 4. Deploy 8 Root Name Server Confederations > of 8 servers each and figure out the optimal > arrangement on an 8 by 8 grid based on network > connections. Internet topology is too complex to map to an 8 by 8 grid. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] The bottom line is track record. Not track tearing. Not track derailing. But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms. -- Randy Bush - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|