|
All Earlier this year some of you all wondered what my
operational concerns were with simultaneous starting of the new TLD and IDNs. This
is just too perfect an example not to share! If you try, to bring up www.isoc.org
right now. Some of you all will get “cannot find web server”! I was on a call with ISOC this morning on some other
issues. At the end of the call, I asked them why their website was
down. It wasn’t actually down and using the IP address instead
of the URL, it worked fine (which won’t even be doable by anyone other
than a network engineer in IPv6). But it didn’t resolve on at least
AT&T and Comcast from Seattle. They just emailed back with the cause. They switched
registrars today and had only a partial transfer occur to the TLDs. TLD operations up to now have as much been networked via “personal
contacts” as by technology since there were only a dozen or so TLD
operators globally. Our technology will need to significantly improve to
insure coordination and security between what will be a growing number of TLD
and IDN-TLD operators; and IDN alone adds tremendously to the DNS technical complexity. Anyway good food for discussions over a late night drink in
Sydney. Take care Terry |