Re: [dns-wg] Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names

[Brad Knowles <]

At 12:52 PM +0200 2004-10-24, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> >  Most hashing algorithms start having problems when they get close to
> >  50% full.  There's no difference here.
>  No, except that this isn't a hash function.
	True, but that doesn't change the nature of the problem.

>  Besides, 2 character codes can easily be extended by allowing 0-9 as
>  the second character, allowing for 936 combinations, which should be
>  enough for a long time to come. And it's ISO's problem, not ours, anyway.
	It's a problem that the ISO has created, but one we will have to 
live with.  At the very least, we need to keep in mind upcoming 
future problems.

	The reason Y2k wasn't much of a problem was that people saw the 
issue looming, and many people around the world worked their butts 
off over a multi-year period of time to help ensure that everything 
would go smoothly.  And overall, it did go reasonably smoothly.

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