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VeriSign and Other Registry Giants Blast ICANN
rhwalker22 writes: "VeriSign, ENIC, and Nominet UK today released a letter to the U.S. Commerce Dept. urging Uncle Sam to 'scale back the powers of the body that manages the Internet's global addressing system,' according to this report on washingtonpost.com. ICANN, of course, has its own take on the Registries' letter..."
It's the same link. Read the whole article.
Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.
Both A, J and G roots are in Virginia. A and J is at NSI, and G is at DoD.
The F root is in Palo Alto
The K root is run by RIPE NCC, and is housed in London
The L root is at ISI in California
I cannot remember or find locations for the others :)
Oh, VeriSign's just mad because ICANN rejected their WLS proposal and
"ICANN leaders have "very, very creatively interpreted their authority to get into areas they were never authorized to get into,"
sounds suspciously like VeriSign's own business practices...
Their both just giant evil entities anyway.
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
Not true, and if it was, it would be a really bad idea to have them all in the same place. RFC 2010 [faqs.org] gives the standard requirements for the servers.
.org, .net] SLDs) are made. If it's lost it can be restarted from a backup or mirror. But changes made since the last backup or flush will be lost.
I think you're confusing two issues.
- There is one canonical root database. This is where the decisions about what is registered and what is not (at the root level, the TLDs, and the significant [.com,
- There are a number of root servers. These are all effectively mirrors of the contents of the root database as of the last snapshot.
The issue is who maintains the canonical database, which provides the data for the servers, not the servers themselves.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
The original is the somewhat more pithy "pot calling the kettle blackarse", and dates back to a time when both these utensils were heated by suspending them over fires. The reference is to being dirty/sooty.