Re: [ICANN-EU] coming late / root-server

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Gerhard Wendebourg wrote:
>But why can't the european not act independent, and administrate their own
>root ?

The nature of a hierarchy is that there can be only one root.

>If the european Internet-Provider mostly decide, to grep their information
>on IP's,  and domains from an european administrated root, what have we to
>care for an US-dominated Internet ?

RIPE does this job already for IPs.

>Of course it needs a bit of synchronizing, but this cannot be the real
>problem.

Please provide a good proposal how to inject names under a unique contraint
into a decentralized database. AFAIK it's an unsolved problem of computer
science.