On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:17:51AM +0000, bmanning@karoshi.com wrote: ...
So how does the operation of gTLD servers differ from ccTLD servers, other than perhaps more focus on geographical diversity?
number and distributions of registrations, legacy considerations that may reflect on legal issues, local policy issues that off the top of my head.
.com vs .um -- for example.
number and distribution of registrations maybe - that comes down to number and sizing of servers and geography/network diversity, the others are at best operational concerns for the backend, not for the "frontend" DNS servers. Taking RFC 2870, why wouldn't all of section 2 and most of section 3 and section 4 be applicable to both gTLD and ccTLD servers (changing root zone and IANA as appropriate)?