Re: [ga] Condolances, and News from New York

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

At 09:45 AM 9/13/2001 -0700, William S. Lovell wrote:
>Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> > About the root being a single point of failure, I don't know how this came
> > into the discussion. I thought everybody knew that there are 12 additional
> > copies of it around the world, exactly for this purpose.
>
>Roberto:
>The folks on this list have levels of "net savvy" that run from expert to
>near zero, I would imagine.  Please elucidate more -- fill us in on the
>details!  Or is there an ICANN document (URL?) that describes that
>setup?


         Bill -- You can find a summary of the root server system at 
<http://www.icann.org/committees/dns-root/y2k-statement.htm> (the ICANN 
root server system advisory committee's Y2K report).

Jon Weinberg
weinberg@msen.com

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