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VeriSign and Other Registry Giants Blast ICANN

Posted by timothy on from the struggle-in-the-primordial-soup dept.

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..."

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  1. Re:Passive Resistance by blowdart · · Score: 4, Informative
    Not true, and if it was, it would be a really bad idea to have them all in the same place. RFC 2010 gives the standard requirements for the servers.

    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 :)

  2. Rootservers by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    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, .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.

    - 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.

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