On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brenden Kuerbis</b> <<a href="mailto:bnkuerbi@syr.edu">bnkuerbi@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/7/07, William Drake <<a href="mailto:drake@hei.unige.ch">drake@hei.unige.ch</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br><br>Wonder if query/response transactions between resolvers and<br>nameservers would qualify?</blockquote><div>
<br>no, neither would IANA "service" qualify (Wolfgang's query) <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
  According to a recent report published in<br>Cisco's IP Journal<br>(<a href="http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/infrastructure-distribution/">http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/infrastructure-distribution/</a>),<br>
several root nameservers based in US (and outside US) provide<br>resolution for the .SD tld.  E.g.,<br><br><br>It appears that Neustar (UltraDNS) is one US based company providing<br>this service. See<br><a href="http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/infrastructure-distribution/ranked-subnets.20070410">
http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/infrastructure-distribution/ranked-subnets.20070410</a></blockquote><div><br>If you think that UltraDNS/ICANN/IANA are in violation, then the IGP (and anyone who runs a website viewed by Sudanese folk) is probably in violation.
<br><br>As for Parminder's query, looking at:<br><a href="http://www.icann.org/cctlds/sd/sponsorship-agmt-20dec02.htm">http://www.icann.org/cctlds/sd/sponsorship-agmt-20dec02.htm</a><br>One sees that the Sudanese ISOC pays a "contribution" and not a fee to ICANN.
<br><br>In other words, you are all off-track.  It can't be "operationalised" in the IANA/ICANN context.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>$ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net">whois.afrinic.net
</a> mctim<br>