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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">Agreed.</p>
<p dir="auto">Jim</p>
<br><p dir="auto">On 14 Sep 2023, at 9:27, Jeff Schmidt wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jim said:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> 2. We all agree that root zone changes are serious business. Looking at</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> the two changes that will need to be done it is important to note that</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> only one of them, the first one, is related to the root scaling concerns.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> It is that first change that will add the applied for TLD string to the root</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> zone. The second change is not an addition, it is changing existing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> information. We need to separate these points of concern.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<br>
Jeff</p>
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