[81886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTIA will control the root name servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Jul 1 20:19:09 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:16:17 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17093.50055.860367.382666@roam.psg.com>; from Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:28:23PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:28:23PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Basically it sounds like the U.S. Gov't (NTIA)/U.S. Dept of Commerce
> > will take back control of the root name servers from ICANN at some
> > point.
>
> no. they never let go of it. a change to a nameserver for an
> african cctld has to go through the us dept of commerce. they
> are saving us from terrorists such as liman. don't you feel
> safe?
Not that anyone around here thinks Declan McCullagh is an authority or
anything (:-), but Kai Ryssdal interviewed him about this on tonight's
Marketplace; the piece, modulo a couple of "root server"'s and "web
address"'s, is here:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/07/01/PM200507012.html
Cheers,
-- jra
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