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Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Jun 19 12:40:13 2011

To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:39:46 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> writes:

> I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that
> it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root zone
> contains.  They distribute what the ICANN/NTIA/Verisign gestalt
> publishes.

yes.  for one example, see:

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04jan08.htm

other rootops who have spoken about this have said similar/compatible things.
-- 
Paul Vixie
KI6YSY


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