[65857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Authority
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Tue Dec 16 03:01:29 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:00:47 +0100
From: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On 16.12 07:14, Paul Vixie wrote:
> we (i'm speaking for f-root here) have no "authority". nobody has to
> listen to us, we are the most powerless bunch of folks you'll ever meet.
>
> now if you'd asked where we derive our *relevance*, i'd say the same as
> mr. bush and mr. kletnieks -- from all the root.cache files that point
> at us. and as long as we don't do anything stupid i guess (and hope)
> that this state of affairs will continue. (relevance trumps authority.)
>
> that having been said, f-root got its start as NS.ISC.ORG and the man
> who said it was ok for us to be a root name server was jon postel. i'm
> not sure he had any "authority" either, but folks "pointed at" him and
> so what he said was relevant in spite of any authority he mightn've had.
Amen!
This also holds for k-root and is so well put that I will not paraphrase it
just for the sake of putting it differently. It is worth reading again!
Daniel
