[73200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign vs. ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Aug 16 16:14:11 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 16 Aug 2004 20:13:32 +0000
In-Reply-To: <F609FDE7-EFB8-11D8-9C72-000A9578BB58@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
patrick@ianai.net (Patrick W Gilmore) writes:
> > PS: I will patent it myself to prevent Versign from doing this.
>
> And if they do, what's to stop the root operators from doing this.
the root server operators don't act collectively.
> Remember, there are 13 IPs no one can get around - no other "TLD" to
> register your domain name.
according to the whackos, we are the "legacy root" operators, and folks
ought to feel free to point their resolvers at any of the "alternative
root" operators instead. YMMV.
> Flipped on its head, what's to stop the root operators from
> circumventing anything Verisign or any other TLD operator does?
root server operators don't control the root zone, they only publish it.
some combination of itu (via the iso3166 process), icann/iana, ietf/iab,
and us-DoC are the folks you'd go to if you wanted a toplevel wildcard.
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Paul Vixie
