Re: AW: [ICANN-EU] root-server-problem

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Gerhard,
I understand your point.

- if you want to discuss this further, may be could you discuss it on the
   icann-debate list, Andy wants to see used for that kind of topics.

- if you want to set-up an european alternative root system, I am
   interested  as I precesely work on such a project. Do you have the
   necessary funding? Let consider that one DN represents an average
   of 100 nameserver calls a day and roughly 50 mails and that a
   minimum replication of the system three times with mirror and central
   management is necessary plus a whois service and administration.

Jefsey



At 13:07 15/10/00, you wrote:
>At 18:23 14.10.00 -0700, Jeff Williams wrote:
> >Jefsey and all,
> >
> >Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Christian,
> >> At 22:04 14/10/00, you wrote:
> >> >Spiegel has the right opinion:
> >> >Even when there can be only one root server: Why we, the @Large-members,
> >> >have never discussed about our wish for independency of any government
> >> >control?
> >>
> >> I suppose that it is because it is pretty obvious to everyone that no
> >> government
> >> has any control but the USG one. And quite all the discussions are how
>to get
> >> rid  of them in a concrete maner.
> >
> >  Although this may be goal of some, it is not likely to happen anytime
> >soon.
>
>Of course this will not happen, unless it will be explicitely declared by
>the non-US spokesmen, that they don't accept this status.
>If they not do so, the USG will  also the next 50 years hold their hand on
>the root-server.
>Its easy for each one, who observed the acting of the USG in the last 10,
>20 or 50 years, to see, that if they have some key-position under control
>(with no expensive costs), they will not release it, unless their is a very
>strong pressure to do so.
>
>So I think, the only way to have not an US-dominated Internet is to have
>alternate root-server, that are independent administrated. Maybe its
>enough, to keep this as a serious and realistic-practicable option (maybe
>here are one or two things to do,to solve technical problems, but also
>name-space.com shows, that its not really unrealistic), and also (and more
>important) to get the political support, to do so: if this option is
>concrete enough and about to get real, than (maybe) the USG will be
>convinced to release the root-server to an real international, democratic
>control.