On Jun 26, 2008, at 8:01 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:28:09PM -0400, Edward Lewis wrote:
At 19:53 -0700 6/24/08, David Conrad wrote: ...polled -some- root server operators.. Emphasis mine
Actually, the sentence you attribute to me was also yours.
If indeed the (ICANN) root server operators have misgiving about the experiment, could someone operating a root server express the reasons?
two things here. DRC didn't not poll -all- the operators, only some subset that he selected.
Indeed (ignoring the presumably spurious 'not' in the above sentence). I also spoke to folks who weren't root server operators (gasp) to provide the secondary service for the demo/test DNSSEC- signed root zone. The goal wasn't to replicate the root server "system" (what would be the point of that?), rather it was to obtain secondaries for a production-quality demo/test service that would go away once the real root zone was signed. I was specifically looking for professionally-operated widely distributed anycast services that had a track record of knowing how to provide root-level DNS and who could spell DNSSEC. As you yourself are aware, there are folks other than the existing root server operators who can do that sort of thing...
re misgivings about sanctioned alternate roots that remain persistant...
Hence the requirement for an agreement, the exact thing into which some of the root server operators I spoke to refused to enter (the non- root server operator folks I spoke to understood the rationale and had no such qualms).
in this case, (one) of the concerns is the defacto hijacking of the root zone editorial function - which is still done under contract/MOU wiht DoC and VSGN.
Riiight. Funny: the data served by ns.iana.org for the DEMO/TEST (hint: not the root name service the data for which is published by VeriSign) service was derived from ftp://ftp.internic.net/domains/root.zone. Of course, discussions with the root server operators didn't get very far once the term "agreement" came up and I quickly lost interest trying to pursue it. My patience for purely non-technical politics isn't what it used to be (and it wasn't that good to begin with). Regards, -drc