Re: one-letter domains

[George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>]

>What would this accomplish exactly?  I think it actually makes things
>(slightly) worse as far as Workload of the Universe is concerned.
>Suppose I want to get something about buzz.artichoke.com...
>
>Current way:
>
>	I query root servers for "buzz.artichoke.com"
>	Root server points me to server for "artichoke.com"
>	Further queries about "*.artichoke.com" don't involve root
>	    servers
>
>Proposed way:
>
>	I query root servers for "buzz.artichoke.com"
>	Root server points me to "ns-a.com-nic.net"
>	"ns-a.com-nic.net" points me to server for "artichoke.com"
>	Further queries about "*.artichoke.com" don't involve root
>	    servers

The primary gain is that the workload on the root server goes
down a whole lot; the root server, in fact, can be reduced
to something merely doing pointers to the appropriate secondary
server based on a parsing of the requested address.

I'm not on the internic staff, but I am worried about that
sort of issue (both ns performance and database size/management).


-george william herbert
gwh@crl.com  Speaking only for myself