Re: [ga] Redelegation issues

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, at 16:50 [=GMT+0100], Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> > Although I value your ideas and decisions, in this case it might be more
> > interesting, especially for the immediate consequences, what the
> > administrators of the following nameservers for ZA do:
> >
> > *za.                     2D IN NS        AUTH00.NS.UU.NET.
> > za.                     2D IN NS        UCTHPX.UCT.AC.za.
> > *za.                     2D IN NS        MUNNARI.OZ.AU.
> > *za.                     2D IN NS        NS.EU.NET.
> > *za.                     2D IN NS        FLAG.EP.NET.
> > *za.                     2D IN NS        RAIN.PSG.COM.
> > za.                     2D IN NS        APIES.FRD.AC.za.
> > za.                     2D IN NS        HIPPO.RU.AC.za.
> >
> > Those marked * (5 out of 8) are not even _near_ South Africa...
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > So, what should be our position, and more importantly, of those that run
> > the above mentioned servers, and the root zone (ICANN, USG)?
> >
>
> I think there is a misunderstanding about the DNS here.
> ICANN specifies the root servers for each country TLD.
>
> If ICANN specified a root server for the ZA zone that was not run by
> Mike Lawrie's organization, the above secondary servers would *not*
> appear in the government-run root DNS server for ZA. In other words,
> what the owners of the above servers do will have no incidence on the
> ZA domain. At most, there will be a period of a few hours, a couple
> of days at most, when the network's DNS will be unstable, but that's
> all.

What is the average time ICANN needs to change ccTLD nameservers in the
root zone? Not hours, not days, not weeks...

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