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Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Mon Jan 17 09:35:09 2005

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:25:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <nanog@adns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <017701c4fc15$b4f5b1d0$80904002@ADNSMICHIGAN.ADNS.NET>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:

> See http://www.public-root.com for an alternative to the ICANN monopoly.
> Those folks are very concerned with security.

Whee, AlterNIC take 7!

In any case, these are *root* (".") servers, not gTLD (i.e., "com.")
servers; they defer to ICANN for those.  This wouldn't help one bit.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>

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