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: michael@memra.com 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