[84916] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Wed Sep 28 11:49:08 2005
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:47:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <20050928080347.GA3326@nic.fr>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>, Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>,
peter@peter-dambier.de,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:39:29PM -0700,
> Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote
> a message of 20 lines which said:
>
> > Actually, I think you've got it backwards. .us and all of the other
> > country-specific TLDs are the last vestiges of nationalism.
>
> The problem is that all gTLD are controlled only in the US (even more
> than the root is). So, they are international only in name.
which part is controlled? the introduction of new TLD or the running of
the TLD services? I may be mistaken, again the slow reading is biting me,
but PIR and Melbourne-IT partnered to run .org, yes? (then passed the
operations on to Afilas and from there to ultradns?)
