[67430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Servers Request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill)
Mon Feb 9 20:14:39 2004
From: bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
To: tv@duh.org (Todd Vierling)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:13:44 -0800 (PST)
Cc: lists@lazyeyez.net (Donovan Hill), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0402091926270.8088@server.duh.org> from "Todd Vierling" at Feb 09, 2004 07:29:26 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
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> : 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-)
Nope. VSGN - A, J
ISI/EP - B
Cogent - C
UMD - D
NASA - E
ISC - F
DISA - G
USArmy - H
Autonomica - I (se)
RIPE - K (nl)
ICANN - L
WIDE - M (jp)
ISC controls -one- instance. With anycast, they have lots of
copies of "F", but ISC does not sponser any of the other operators
or their operations.
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> You're probably confused that ROOT-SERVERS.NET. != GTLD-SERVERS.NET. The
> latter hosts COM. and NET. and is run exclusively by VeriSign.
>
> --
> -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
>
