[65851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Authority
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Mon Dec 15 16:51:19 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:50:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: Doug Luce <doug@nanog.con.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031215160728.S46696@zaxxon.telerama.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
See Form and Substance in Cyberspace, 6 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 93
(2002), available online
http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/formandsubstance.pdf
(especially pp. 119-122 ("The role of the root server operators"))
and more generally
Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the
Constitution, 50 Duke L.J. 17 (2000), available online
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Doug Luce wrote:
>
> An interesting question I've dealt with a few times:
>
> >From whom do the root nameservers derive their authority?
>
> Doug
>
>
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