On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Keith Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Peter Lothberg wrote:
Shared resources has to bee keept as neutral as possible, and having for example a root-name-server behind it's own router attached to a well recogized public exchange point seems to be the best avaliable implementation today.
This is in fact exactly the physical arrangement that we have proposed: a root name server on its own class C one hop off the LINX.
Not from a routing policy point of view - will you put the root server in a seperate AS, or will connectivity be constrained by your peering/routing policy ?
As I think that I have already said, we don't much care which AS it is in, and, no, it would not be constrained by our peering/routing policy.
To repeat what may not be clear to those added to the lengthening CC: list, some time ago, after securing the endorsement of the UK ISPA, VBCnet approached IANA on behalf of ISPA with an offer to provide and manage a root name server at the LINX.
Neither VBCnet nor ISPA has the authority to offer "to provide and manage a root name server at the LINX", without appropriate approval from a majority of LINX members. They do of course have authority to offer to provide and manage a root nameserver on their own, or another of their members' own network.
I was quickly restating our offer and did so sloppily. If you look back at what I was restating, it used the phrase "one hop away from the LINX". I believe that everything else that I have written has made the correct distinctions. VBCnet is a member of the LINX. We and other members use its facilities only by mutual agreement. All of us understand that perfectly clearly.
We sent an engineer to California to discuss this with Paul Vixie, who operates one of the root name servers and is responsible for the software. We intend to follow Vixie's recommendations on hardware, software, and the way in which the root name server is attached to the LINX, which is in fact as you have described above.
Could someone maybe reconcile this with the offer of ready hardware I've had from Bill Manning ? I'm confused.
Sorry, but I know nothing about this.
I think we need a little more discussion between those who have plans and policy ideas here, and a rather less attempts at public point-scoring to the widest possible distribution.
Let us make this also perfectly clear: I have added not one name to the CC list. I did correct "chief@ispa.org.uk" to "ispa-com@ispa.org.uk". It is others who have grown and grown the CC list and are, if you are correct, interested in "public point-scoring to the widest possible distibution". -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015