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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">While the below discussion
may be of use in its own right, I may clarify that when I talked about
cost, it was the cost for a root server operator to not comply with the
authoritative root zone file, in terms of the disruptions etc that it
may cause... I want referring to the financial costs of setting up a
root server.... parminder </font><br>
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On Wednesday 13 June 2012 07:22 PM, David Conrad wrote:
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cite="mid:6E863004-CB5D-4FEC-8BF1-78FBA68C8280@virtualized.org"
type="cite">Jean-Louis,
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<div>On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK wrote:</div>
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<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>
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The cost of deploying an anycast root instance of at least one root
server is:</div>
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<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>
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<div>The cost for mirroring the root zone in an ISP's caching server
is:</div>
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<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>
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<div>Pretty much any full-service ISP anywhere in the world can meet
either of these requirements.</div>
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<div> Regards,</div>
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<div>-drc</div>
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