Dear all,<div><br></div><div>We should all be aware that Becky has an obligation to analyse and disseminate the information that comes her attention through many ways (isnt it so?). </div><div><br></div><div>So, please, let us all pass over the information that is correct at first instance in order to avoid such discussions afterwards like what is happening now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Well done one and all!</div><div><br></div><div>Yassin <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/30 Douglas Onyango <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ondouglas@yahoo.com">ondouglas@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Rebecca,<br>The findings of the Augmentation study pointed out some problems, including:-<br>
1. Fall back to TCP because of truncation<br>2. High Memory usage on servers.<br>3. Increase in latency especially with BIND and big zone files (100,000+) among others.<br><br>I do agree that some of the loads/tests are not practicle at the moment and even some can be mitigated, but overall IMHO telling ourselves that we won't be affected would be wrong.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329<br>
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the Problem.<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 10/30/09, Rebecca Wanjiku <i><<a href="mailto:rebecca.wanjiku@gmail.com" target="_blank">rebecca.wanjiku@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><br>From: Rebecca Wanjiku <<a href="mailto:rebecca.wanjiku@gmail.com" target="_blank">rebecca.wanjiku@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Africa likely to be shaken off the internet<br>
To: "SM" <<a href="mailto:sm@resistor.net" target="_blank">sm@resistor.net</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank">africann@afrinic.net</a><br>Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 4:02 AM<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>Hi SM,<div><br></div><div>I just wanted to post the link, so the titles may not have been well coordinated, I talked to Bill, who did his research in Africa for "B" he thinks Africa will be affected, Africa may not think so.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am just a messenger; whether it will be affected or not, we can wait and see.</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>Becky<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/30 SM <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=sm@resistor.net" target="_blank">sm@resistor.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">Hi Becky,<br>
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The title of the article says "Root zone changes may shake up Net in Africa". Your subject line says something different. Even if "developing countries are often the dumping ground for the outdated hardware and software", that does not mean that Africa will be shaken off the Internet.<br>
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There is some information at <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ns.iana.org/dnssec/status.html" target="_blank">https://ns.iana.org/dnssec/status.html</a> if you want to test DNSSEC.<br>
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Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
-sm<br>
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