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Saving the Net (Linux Journal)Saving the Net (Linux Journal)Posted Nov 19, 2005 10:54 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)In reply to: Saving the Net (Linux Journal) by job Parent article: Saving the Net (Linux Journal)
Rather than just echo what the other reply to this says, I'd add that many Americans wrongly believe that they have _operational_ control over the root servers. That hasn't been true for years, more than a decade by now. Operational control over the thirteen named servers A-M is spread over diverse organisations as you can see on http://www.root-servers.org/
The reason for /those/ organisations rather than any others is mostly historical accident. I'd be happy to see some of them replaced, but only so long as the replacements were experienced, technically competent and able to make a long-term commitment to provide service.
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Saving the Net (Linux Journal) Posted Nov 19, 2005 12:39 UTC (Sat) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link] Interesting. A presentation at this site indicates to me that replacement of the root zone publisher, if the current publisher were not to guard its reputation extremely carefully, could be accomplished in a matter of days rather than weeks. I'd not appreciated the extent of current organisational seperation of publisher and printer of the root zone - this seems to confirm my case about the ability of the world to leave ICANN behind if it puts a foot wrong.
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