Re: [wg-c] Mark's Proposal

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.net>]

At 10:58 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>At 09:11 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
>>At 02:03 PM 4/10/00 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>>>Nope.  They were never reachable at all.  CORE never set up alternate
>>>roots (except for internal testing purposes); and it never sold
>>>registrations in any alternate roots.
>>
>>Not true. A deal was cut by John Gilmore a few years ago (Feb 1998) to 
>>carry the 5 undisputed TLDs in the ORSC root because CORE had no test 
>>infrastructure:
>
>Gosh, Simon.  You would not, by any small chance, have some additional 
>documentation of this tidbit would you?  That is, how does one 
>independently verify that CORE worked with ORSC and used the ORSC 
>independent (non-IANA) root?

I thought you'd never ask. :-) My mistake - ORSC didn't have a root 
infrastructure in place back then. But eDNS did (and ORSC has since assumed 
the eDNS root zone):

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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 20:38:24 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
To: Marc Hurst <mhurst@fastlane.ca>, gnu@toad.com
Cc: gtld-servers@toad.com
Subject: Adding CORE domains to the eDNS root servers

I think your idea is interesting, might bring the communities closer,
and don't see how it can cause any harm.

You're welcome to add NS records and glue for any or all of the CORE
domains to the eDNS root servers.

Here is the current set of CORE gTLD name servers:

info.                   1D IN NS        berk.serv.nic.info.
info.                   1D IN NS        cat.serv.nic.info.
info.                   1D IN NS        srs-sf.serv.nic.info.
info.                   1D IN NS        sf.serv.nic.info.
info.                   1D IN NS        melb.serv.nic.info.
berk.serv.nic.info.     1D IN A         208.1.127.5
cat.serv.nic.info.      1D IN A         194.140.148.12
srs-sf.serv.nic.info.   1D IN A         209.24.233.193
sf.serv.nic.info.       1D IN A         140.174.2.72
melb.serv.nic.info.     1D IN A         203.14.165.209

The "NS" records should be repeated for each of the CORE gTLD's.

At the moment these zones are being generated and propagated every 15
minutes from the SRS.  Registrars can enter test registrations and have
them be visible in the zone files within about half an hour.  Of course,
all these test registrations will disappear once we start processing
real paid registrations.

Please let me know if and when any name servers reference these zones.

         John

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I think Kent should publish a retraction on his previous denials.