<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jean-Louis,<div><br><div><div>On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p>I think Parminder's fears are right, especially for those countries (and they the majority) who don't have neither the financial, nor the technical, nor the human resources to establish, to operate and to maintain/develop the "root mirror architecture" you mention in your reply.</p></blockquote><div><br></div>The cost of deploying an anycast root instance of at least one root server is:</div><div><br></div><div>- About US$3000 or so for the hardware</div><div>- A rack unit of rackspace, an ethernet connection with unhindered Internet connectivity, and power for the hardware</div><div>- Sufficient technical expertise to allow the hardware to announce itself to the routing system</div><div><br></div><div>The cost for mirroring the root zone in an ISP's caching server is:</div><div><br></div><div>- Sufficient technical expertise to configure a resolver to automatically mirror the root zone</div><div>-- or --</div><div>- Sufficient technical expertise to copy the root zone and install it by hand.</div><div><br></div><div>Pretty much any full-service ISP anywhere in the world can meet either of these requirements.</div><div><br></div><div> Regards,</div></div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div></body></html>