Re: [ga] The Vixie Root

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Stephane an d all former DNSO GA members or other interested parties,

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 February 2003, at 16 h 47,
> Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net> wrote:
>
> > A similar announcement last month, that there will be a copy in Spain
> > of f.root also, went unnoticed, I think.
> ...
> > I am very curious what ICANN thinks about this and how the DoC feels.
>
> I completely share Karl Auerbach's analysis about this issue: ICANN claims to be concerned about the stability of the Internet while it shows a complete lack of interest for any operational issue (and, when it does, it produces texts like <URL:http://www.iana.org/faqs/tld-zone-access-faq.htm> that are technically ridiculous).

  Very much agreed here.  It is amazing that still these sorts of technically
ridiculous "Faq" files from the IANA are still prevalent.  One can only wonder
if ever the IANA will get it's act together in the next millennium...

>
>
> Do note that ISC is not the only body to work on anycasting the root name servers (so your subject is misleading). On the contrary, anycasting is a very hot subject. RIPE does it, too <URL:http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-268.html>.
>
> AFAIK, none of the planned replicas is actually active yet, but it is a matter of weeks.
>
> For those interested by the technical side:
>
> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/anycast.html
> RFC 1546
> RFC 3258

  Yes.  However this link has precious actual technical information, but
does point to  http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/ppt/suzanne.pdf
which is a presentation provided by Suzanne Woolf, but still lacks
very much specific technical information as well but is bit better...

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