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<div>Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div>This is a presentation (link below) made at last week's RIPE meeting by a representative of Autonomica, one of the root server operators. It seems to expresses some serious concerns from a stability perspective about ICANN's plan to effectively allow unrestricted
growth in the root zone file in the context of new gTLDs.</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-58/content/presentations/Ihren-Root_Scaling_Issues.pdf"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-58/content/presentations/Ihren-Root_Scaling_Issues.pdf</u></font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Comic Sans MS, cursive" size="1" color="#000080">Department of Human Resources Science & Technology</font></div>
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