[rssac-caucus] DNS Root Server System history - input

Fri Feb 19 02:42:16 UTC 2016

Hello,
  I loved reading the document. it's great.
  But as usual, there still room for improvement, I don't like looking
for perfection but if we can improve a little we should do it. I
personally learned a lot while reading it. 
  Here few comments:

1) In section 2. "History of Root Servers" I think we should be more
descriptive, tell more history, give more context, what the problem was,
problem distributing of the hosts.txt file, limitations, scalability,
things like that. Saying this, IMHO I believe the history in the
document can be better organized. It's a kind of shocking that it starts
talking about the RFCs and just in the second paragraph it jumps into
implementation of the first root server. I believe our target is
technical people but the document is about the History of DNS. I wonder
if we could include things like how much time took the first
developments, how many people was involve, language program used for,
etc. I personally enjoy these details

2) In few parts of the documents it's mentioned that (for example
A-Root) is one of the 13 logical Internet Root Servers......, also in
2.7 under the "Adding Root Letters", this information is terrific!, I
would love to expand in why the "limitation" is 13?. It's mention  Maybe
this is not history but this is something that probably is not widely
well explained. I don't think this point is particularly relevant, I
just wanted to mention it just in case.

3) What do you think about dedicating a small paragraph about what DNS
label compression is.., this concept is mentioned twice in the document.
I might be wrong but my guess is that many people don't know about this.

4) I agree with Arturo's comments

5) And finally, I wonder if at the end, along with the appendix we could
add something like an infographic [1] image

Regards,

Alejandro,

El 2/10/2016 a las 12:13 PM, Steve Sheng escribió:
> Hi Arturo, thank you very much for the feedback! See my responses inline: 
>
> From: <rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org
> <mailto:rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Arturo Servin
> <arturo.servin at gmail.com <mailto:arturo.servin at gmail.com>>
> Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 7:16 PM
> To: Tripti Sinha <tsinha at umd.edu <mailto:tsinha at umd.edu>>,
> "rssac-caucus at icann.org <mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>"
> <rssac-caucus at icann.org <mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>>
> Subject: Re: [rssac-caucus] DNS Root Server System history - input
>
>
>     Hi
>
>     I really enjoyed reading the document. I am not young but
>     unfortunately I wasn't yet there to have much of feedback. 
>
>     In all the initial tables 1-2 the software was included, later in
>     3 there isn't any mention. I wonder if this is because there isn't
>     information or if it wasn't consider relevant anymore.
>
>
> Mostly it was considered not relevant anymore. The first two tables
> were to show software diversity in the root server system, and how it
> moved from mainframe to Unix and from JEEVEs to BIND. 
>
>
>     Before moving to Section 3 it would be good to have a simple table
>     summarizing the 13 root servers (you have the table at the
>     Appendix but I think it would be interesting to have it at the end
>     of the section as a nice conclusion.
>
>
> Instead of duplicating 5.1, one way to address it to add a sentence or
> two in section 2.8 pointing to Appendix 5.1. But we will give more
> thought on this. 
>
>
>     I know that you provide the statements verbatim from the
>     operators, but there are some that do not read as well as the rest
>     of the document. Could you ask some of the operators to rewrite a
>     little some of the statements or provide them with some editorial
>     suggestions?
>
>     The ones that I really like and could be used as an example are B,
>     F, I and M. The ones that I suggest some rewrite are A (J it is
>     much better and less commercial. A it is like a PR statement ...)
>     For others I will suggest to make it more about the node history,
>     why it was important to deploy and not so much about the people
>     (which are important but not central to the document).
>
>
> Noted! 
>
>
>     Regards
>     as
>
>
>     On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 at 14:00 Tripti Sinha <tsinha at umd.edu
>     <mailto:tsinha at umd.edu>> wrote:
>
>         Dear Caucus,
>
>         In September 2015, the RSSAC held its first workshop to
>         discuss issues related to the evolution of the root server
>         system. The public report of the successful workshop is
>         available on the RSSAC publications page
>         <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rssac-publications-2014-05-12-en>. 
>
>         To prepare for the workshop, the RSSAC compiled a document
>         outlining the history of the root server system. This document
>         provided a foundation for informed discussions at the
>         workshop. The RSSAC has further reviewed the document since
>         the workshop. Before publication, the RSSAC would like to seek
>         input from the Caucus on this document. 
>
>         The RSSAC would like to propose a process for Caucus review of
>         the draft history of the root server system document. Through
>         *04 March 2016*, the RSSAC invites Caucus members to review
>         the draft for factual correctness. At the end of the 4 week
>         review period, the RSSAC will determine if further Caucus
>         review is necessary before proceeding with publication. Please
>         send your input directly to *Steve Sheng at
>         steve.sheng at icann.org <mailto:steve.sheng at icann.org>.*
>
>         The RSSAC hopes robust Caucus review will strengthen this
>         important document on the history of the root server system.
>         Please do not hesitate to contact us with any question or
>         concerns. We look forward to your contributions. 
>
>         Best regards,
>
>         Tripti Sinha and Brad Verd
>         RSSAC Co-Chairs
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