Re[7]: [ga-roots] Re[4]: [ga-icann] interesting California law to consider

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Marc,

Sunday, June 17, 2001, 11:44:47 AM, Marc Schneiders wrote:

>> Further, the primary servers used by all 3 of those sets are also
>> serving the root zone, providing no separation at all between root and
>> TLD service.  

> So what? The same things could (and in part [edu in any case] still
> can) be said about the legacy/USG/ICANN root until recently. The
> seperation process between root-servers.net and gtld-servers.net there
> is not complete yet... (Remember how a.ROOT-servers.net lost the .COM
> zone some 10 months ago?)

Yes, all but for edu it is complete.

And none of the root servers (or gtld-servers) permit recursive
lookups.

And that is a much more important issue.

> And what about the ccTLDs? A lot of them use the same servers in
> addition to a nameserver in their own country. 

The difference is that they almost ALWAYS run the primary (and usually
a secondary) themselves.

That is NOT the case looking at the ORSC root.

They get one of the 3 groups I mentioned to do it, or 2 of them in
some cases.



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