Carl Hewitt: When did the humble beginnings take place?

Mark Kosters:  April 1993

Carl Ellison: Why do you think .net is more popular [than .org]?

Mark Kosters:  .net is sexier than .org

Q:  How do you authenticate?

Mark Kosters: They have their own system.. a password system and
uses PGP to update the templates.

Henrick Rood: {something about customer services...}

Mark Kosters: Multiple call centers did not work very well, as the information
is stored locally and there are stringent security requirements.

Jim Whitehead: (Referring to slide a.roo-server.net) What am I seeing?  Average queries per sec?

Mark Kosters: Requests per second

Rohit Khare: {ed: didn't get all of the comment} 200 megabits per bandwidth.

Carl Hewitt:  What happened with that lawsuit?

Mark Kosters: The guy who originally had the domain name lost, and the guy had to send mail to everyone he knew saying that he was no longer using that domain.  Big corporations usally win these domain name contests.

Esther Dyson: Six actors : things are actually working : 6 beyond 5 {missed the rest}

Walt Sacchi: Is there a death policy? Are domain names forever?

Mark Kosters: If you don't pay, you don't keep.  If I have a name like ibm.com does that name get released?  It gets put back in free pool.  Is the free pool browsable?  No, but there are a lot of third party activities in this area.  We removed the status flag from the database.

Esther Dyson: The timer is two years.  What's the technical reason why NSI can't change that.  A team at NSI made this assertion.

Mark Kosters: I don't know why that the reg team said that.

{Ed: Missed some discussion about the status of the other firms.}

Carl Hewitt: {ed: missed the beginning of his discussion} Show the graphs with the name.  If we make a
graph of the number of people divided by the name, will there be more costs. The ratio has gone up.  Interesting question.

Jim Whitehead: People are fond of saying that the if a nuclear war occurs, the internet will survive, and route around it.  So what happens if NSI's offices were to be taken out, by either war, or some other catastrophe?

Someone: Finanical insolvency will become less of a problem.

Larry Masinter: Perhaps a better phrasing of the question is, what is the failsafe mechanism that takes over during failure?

Mark Kosters: We have an alternate backup site.  Couple of weeks later, people will figure how to load that.  If there were a disaster, we'll stay within the status quo.  With the current zone release, use that until put back in order.  Worried about dns not dying.  If cache timeout, no longer get answer.  Worst case scenerio (totally dead). Number of mailing lists internally : someone else becomes master or everyone reloads their machine...

Rohit Khare: What's the status of increasing the number of root servers?

Mark Kosters: DNS option : working group trying to fix the problem.  13 advertised, acutally more.  What is the best way : 1) allowing people to pinpoint response and 2) organzation maintain...

Rohit Khare: What's the reality of the sitation?

Mark Kosters: Compress name: compression scheme how 13 came about.  If shorter label, you can get more.  Why do have to do attacks?  You can do common ip.  Inject one ip address : company working with has one ow. 12 servers in country.  You can do that now.

Bob Morgan: If that's true, does that line continue? 30m instead of 60? i.e.  Will your quieuing system will give problems
in the future?

Mark Kosters: Use quantum computing. Lots of stuff driven off of NFS. Not fast enough.  We need better nfs server.  It will do pretty well, and we are very comfortable.  This should scale for a long time. Common mistakes die.  Not set with doc, etc.  as things go rhorougn(?), things will be more stable for th future. So is the techincal goal is to make everyone a peer?  That's only driven in the doc negotiations...  {Ed: Missed: Level of technical performance, There are conversations, and most of the principals keep in contact over things...}