At 09:03 AM 6/28/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:

If you don't do it carefully, you'll end up needing a bunch of Above-Top-Level nameservers that serve the names of the tens of thousands of top-level domains.

Five thousand top level domain names is quite manageable, no big problem provided that their servers are reasonably stable -- and if the unstable ones do not work well, big deal. A hundred thousand would be a problem. Assume a top level domain typically lasts forever, and a top level server typically lasts ten years. Assume two new top level domain names appear each day, and that it typically takes a several of months of reliable service to be added to the most generally accepted lists. This does not seem to constitute an intolerable burden to most domain name server administrators. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com