Paul Vixie, one of the most vocal and narrow minds on the planet, finally throws in the towel on the old DNS. Will he be turning off his root servers and giving up his multi-million dollar non-profit gigs? http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2009/msg00989.html "we have to start a transition away from UDP/53 (which is not upgradeable in place due to many failings including reliance on IP fragmentation) and TCP/53 (which is too fragile to be relied upon for queries, even as a fallback). i don't think we should exert more energy on these two transports now that we know what the problems really are. let's consider SCTP."