[67425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Servers Request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Feb 9 19:39:21 2004
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:36:12 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
Cc: Donovan Hill <lists@lazyeyez.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0402091926270.8088@server.duh.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
How does ISC pick these sites/subsidizers?
Thanks,
DJ
Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
>
> : This is a formal request to ICANN that they hand over the root server to a
> : not-for-profit organization. I nominate ISC for this task.
>
> And here, I had thought that most of *.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. were ISC-sponsored,
> mostly not-for-profit/academic/subsidized servers as it was. To be sure,
> VeriSign does not control the majority of such servers. 8-)
>
> You're probably confused that ROOT-SERVERS.NET. != GTLD-SERVERS.NET. The
> latter hosts COM. and NET. and is run exclusively by VeriSign.
>
