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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical The root nameservers will be replaced August 1st
If the information in the following message means what I think it means in then somebody is colocating an entire new set of root nameservers at exchange points within the USA if not internationally. Can they do this? Or are they bluffing? If you want to comment on issues related to top level domain names but not related to network operations, please, please, please post those comments to [email protected] only even if it means replying twice to this message. Believe me, you do *NOT* want to crosspost between NEWDOM and NANOG and you do *NOT* want to attract these discussions into NANOG either. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:53:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Issues on the table Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:25:51 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: [email protected] > >They're the official "top of command" for the root domain... > > Hypothetical, to help me understand: > > Says who? > > IANA runs their roots - what happens if AlterNIC gets enough people > to recognize their roots, and serves out their own TLDs? Does the > IANA have an enforcement branch? > > Please don't flame, I'm not trying to argue, just understand how this > all works. Seems to me that 2 entities are trying to be in charge. IANA > want to be in charge, and AlterNIC wants to share being in charge. Seems > that it can't be both ways, but what if they're both doing it? > > Christopher Ambler > President, Image Online Design, Inc. Well, let's see... What if someone, say Eugene, started showing up at major exchange points and major ISPs with, oh, say, "root nameserver in a box" systems? As in public root nameservers. As in distributed, across-the-country, on every major backbone root nameservers. Which, among other things, outperformed and were more stable than the current roots. What do you think might happen? :-) Hint: This is not a hypothetical question. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1] | Email to "[email protected]" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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