[48515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Updates to the root zone Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Nilsson?=)
Thu Jun 6 11:10:32 2002
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 17:08:32 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Nilsson?= <mansaxel@sunet.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0206061044110.18549-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:47:52 -0400 Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
wrote:
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> This is not a political question, only operational process.
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> Has ICANN and NTIA worked out their operational issues so they can =
quickly
> change the root zone to reflect changes in ccTLD nameservers if people
> need to change which name servers are handling the ccTLDs. Last year,
> some of the ccTLD operators were complaining it sometimes took weeks =
after
> they submitted the change for it to make it into the root zone.
I tried this game fall 2000. It was a farce. We (I then worked at NIC-SE,
the SE registry) tried to remove "sparky.arl.mil" from the SE delegation.=20
After all the politcs in Sweden wrt this move had been sorted out, we
e-mailed the correct (as announced on webpage) contact at IANA/ICANN.=20
Weeks went by.=20
Nothing happened.=20
We grew tired of this and started pulling some threads. ONLY after informal
prodding (by well-known people that then had no formal role in SE
operations) the root zone was updated! And, we NEVER got any
acknowledgement back, we simply noticed that the delegation had been
adjusted.=20
We were not impressed. I thought along the same lines as Sean, poor ccTLDs
if this (root admin unresponsiveness) is a continuing state of affairs...
--=20
M=E5ns Nilsson Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE
We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.
