[137453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sun Feb 13 13:31:41 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D581B62.7080101@bogus.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:31:30 -1000
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> Of course, one might ask why those well known anycast addresses are
>> "owned" by 12 different organizations instead of being "golden"
>> addresses specified in an RFC or somesuch, but that gets into root
>> server operator politics...
>=20
> there are perfectly valid reasons why you might want to renumber one,
Ignoring historical mistakes, what would they be?
> the current institutional heterogeneity has pretty good prospects for
> survivability.
"Golden" addresses dedicated to root service (as opposed to 'owned' by =
the root serving organization) means nothing regarding who is operating =
servers behind those addresses. It does make it easier to change who =
performs root service operation (hence the politics).
Regards,
-drc
