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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 05 August 2012 06:10 PM,
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Also better clarity will be useful about the process of setting up
anycast mirrors. Are they to seek a relationship with a specific
root server or can they be set up just like that.... <br>
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I read from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2003-September/001075.html">http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2003-September/001075.html</a>
that anycast root mirrors can be under very tight control of the
root server operator, so much so that ' administrative access will
not be available' to the anycast operator to his own anycast server.
Well!! This is a pretty centralised control, not at all the picture
one got from all the technically well informed insiders who seem to
suggest on this list that everything is open, uncontrolled and
hunky-dory and kind of anyone can set up and operate root servers.
Was the African minister really so wrong, or even the Indian
minister? <br>
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Is this the kind of informing the un-informed one seeks to do, that
has been much spoken of here. The un-informed are rightly cautious
of 'being informed', i'd say.<br>
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parminder <br>
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Is the real problem here that if root server allocation issue is
opened up, countries would like to go country-wise on root servers
(as the recent China's proposal for 'Autonomous Internet') which
will skew the present non-nation wise Internet topology (other
than its US centricity), which is an important feature of the
Internet. If this is the base political question, then let us
discuss it as the main political question.<br>
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Parminder <br>
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regards<br>
parminder <br>
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<pre wrap="">Regards,
-drc
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