Re: [icann-europe] European Root Server System

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 15:54 [=GMT-0100], Andy Duff wrote:

> > Different root systems is a tautology - you can only have one root, if
> > there are more they aren't roots and you can place a root above them!
> 
> I think what you are getting at here is the distinction between a technical
> root and a virtual root. it would be possible (though not necessarily
> desirable) to have multiple technical roots (as the ICANN PSO accepted here
> http://www.pso.icann.org/PSO_Statements/PSO-Statements-28September2001.txt).
> The fact that the possibility of multiple technical roots is being discussed
> seriously 

In fact there is already a duplicate ICANN root operational in
Europe. See 

http://www/orsn.org/

I think they could use operational support. (I am not affiliated with
them, really.)

> is a measure of the pragmatic difficulties in trying to operate
> with only a single technical root in a global Internet. As Jefsey and others
> have pointed out, depending on how you define a root system, there are
> already multiple root systems deployed in some areas on the Internet without
> any concrete examples of problems thus far.

Well, there is the .biz and .info problem... This is also a technical
problem, for which see

http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-schneiders-root-fix-us-00.txt

> I have often felt that some elements (particularly those within the DNSO)
> have sometimes deliberately avoided accepting this reality as expressed by
> the PSO.

I would say this in a much more affirmative manner, and also less
politely.

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