Re: [icann-europe] RE: [ecdiscuss] Re: [icann-europe] European Root Server System

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Elisabeth,
great!

At 19:01 25/04/02, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:
>I cannot agree more on the necessity to internationalize.

So, let have a try at it! Let the ccNET develop by its own!

>As a first step I would encourage you all to watch the divestment
>of Dor Org to a new gTLD Registry. There is 3 millions domain names,
>18 millions US dollar per annum for Registry share (today VeriSign).
>I have no idea how many domain names has been sold for more than
>one year - the subsequent question is if the new Dot Org registry
>will be reimboursed on prorata of time base, or if the new Dot Org
>will work for free.

Thank you. The question I ask for, since Plan B
And I ask for the M$ 5 not to benefit to the ICANN ...
And that .org is not eventually managed by Louis Touton.

>Please comment on the RFP draft which be published by 1st May.

yeap! did you see it?

>Roberto - let me add to your list two items, on IP addresses
>and on rootservers distribution.
>
>While all 3 RIRs seem to have similar practices (they made a study),
>one may observe that before 2001, in 3 years 1998 a 2000,
>the distribution of 8 Address Blocks was:

<snip>

you may also say that from 1998 to now
10 went to ARIN
3   to RIPE
2   to APNIC
:-)

>The unique A root server under control is a Good Thing, but
>why a dozen of servers, each of them an exact copy of A, should
>be forever where they are (hazard of initial deployment) and built
>in with bricks ?

you mean build with tricks?
There is not such a thing as the unique A root actually. As you know. There 
is a 30 days delay at least in getting the ccTLD IP addresses updated - 
that is if they signed a contract. What bout Pitcairns lately, and about 
.tf. Sending a snail letter with a disquette (89 K uncompressed) is faster 
update.

>Would it be really a crime of lese-majeste to imagine that
>a set of criterias for a cloud of root servers be drafted and an RFP
>issued ? (yes, yes I know it must be where the connectivity is,
>but do not tell me Europe should not have 5 root servers - why do
>you think there is such a density of cables under Atlantic ?)

tst, tst, Elisabeth. I got you: you think like an ICANNese !
Connectivity is not to be near from Joe Sims.
It is to be near from the user.
Root Servers are better located where we need them than where the ICANN can 
best try to contract them.

>The Internet engineers gave to the world an extremely powerful
>system of universal numbering and naming, which, added to the web
>and other applications became a fascinating powerful political
>tool for management - with a possibility for global management.

Thx.
Basically numbering was Louis Pouzin.
Naming was Joe Rinde, Bob Trehin, and...
The web was Berner-Lee,
oh yes, the political tool was Joe Sims.

>On one side there are IP numbers, domain names and taxonomy,

the way you say that, it sounds like "taxes on denomination" :-)

>on the other it goes into the whole society and its capability
>of organization, databases of ressources, electronic commerce,
>ID cards, democratic votes, legal systems, tax collection.

oh! I known it, taxes were around : we are French, are we not?
Have a great day.
jfc



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