[65854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Authority
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Dec 15 21:32:24 2003
To: bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
Cc: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush), doug@nanog.con.com (Doug Luce),
nanog@merit.edu (nanog@merit.edu)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:28:05 PST."
<200312152228.hBFMS5q27272@karoshi.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:31:02 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:28:05 PST, bill said:
> Sorry Mr Bush. We derive our authority from the old IANA, who
> assigned out the exiting roots.
No, that's who *appointed* you. However, you derive your actual
authority from all the named.ca hints files that point to you.
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