[governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still...)

[Roland Perry]

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<CAHyAo0H5pg7gdAbtfgzhoGs=2m=BREUnW9F8eDoFh+HvSFAhxA at mail.gmail.com>, at 
01:04:06 on Fri, 3 Aug 2012, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> 
writes
>The Wikipedia article on Root Name Server says that "The choice of 13 
>nameservers was made because of limitations in the original DNS 
>specification" with a 'why?' asking for citation.

The reason it's 13 (rather than 12 or 14 etc) is very simple, and one of 
the things I've already listed to include in my paper.

Or when they ask "why" do they really mean "why was any limit at all 
designed in?" Perhaps I'll look into that as well - maybe the answer is 
"because we never expected there ever to be more than 13".

(And I don't mean that as a criticism - I once designed a home computer 
that could be re-branded and sold under different names, with the 
sign-on message changing; and I was told there would never be more than 
eight such re-branding opportunities, so we only assigned a 3-bit 
field).
-- 
Roland Perry

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