On 1/28/20 6:01 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
throwing random thoughts to the internet:
Root server identifier: the DNS name that references a root server. These are then translated into IP addresses as well. These used to be referred to as "letters", but they have not always been a "letter" and may not be in the future as well.
Root server: (all) the infrastructure maintained by a root server operator to handle root service pointed at by a given root server identifier. In the distant past, these were potentially implemented using a single physical device, or "server", but are not today.
Root server instance: A portion of a root server's infrastructure that serves root data from a particular site, which may consist of single or multiple physical devices. Anycast instance: another name for a root server instance.
I strongly support this this simple language approach! -Karl