[NCAP-Discuss] Root Zone Change Rates

[James Galvin]

Agreed.

Jim


On 14 Sep 2023, at 9:27, Jeff Schmidt wrote:

> Jim said:
>
>> 2. We all agree that root zone changes are serious business. Looking 
>> at
>> the two changes that will need to be done it is important to note 
>> that
>> only one of them, the first one, is related to the root scaling 
>> concerns.
>> It is that first change that will add the applied for TLD string to 
>> the root
>> zone. The second change is not an addition, it is changing existing
>> information. We need to separate these points of concern.
>
> Agree they are different. The first is adding the TLD, which is net 
> new entries into the root. The second is a re-delegation which 
> doesn’t change the size of the root, but represents a unit of work 
> for IANA-Verisign, requires review, and presents opportunity for 
> errors. The RSSAC report mentions a concern about “churn” (the 
> latter type) in addition to net size growth (the former type). Root 
> zone changes are not zero risk.
>
> Timing will get interesting in the 2030(?) round. Some applications 
> (existing Registry using pre-evaluated RSP) could go quite fast 
> because they need little to no 2012-style evaluation. While evaluation 
> was the long pole in 2012, these collisions and IANA/root scaling 
> limitations may be the long pole in future rounds. Which means there 
> will be additional scrutiny.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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