[governance] host country agreement + "geostrategic innocence"

[Joe Baptista]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Jovan Kurbalija wrote:

> Hi Joe and Tim,
>
> This message follows the speculative nature of the overall discussion on
> future arrangements and venues (a few previous messages); I agree that both
> "root server" and "venue" comments are highly speculative.

Jovan - not sure what your going on about but there is nothing speculative
about the root servers and what I wrote on them.  The facts are clear, the
only thing which is speculative is ICANNs future role in this - if any.

regards
joe

Joe Baptista, Official Public-Root Representative and Lobbyist to the
United States Congress and Senate / Tel: +1 (202) 517-1593

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>
> JK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Baptista [mailto:baptista at cynikal.net]
> Sent: 17 October 2005 14:33
> To: McTim
> Cc: Jovan Kurbalija; governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] host country agreement + "geostrategic innocence"
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, McTim wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 10/17/05, Jovan Kurbalija <jovank at diplomacy.edu> wrote:
> > > Here are a few comments on the latest discussion....
> >
> > > ICANN could have immunity (ICANN as an entity as well as directors of
> its
> > > Board) in performing its core functions, e.g. running the root servers -
> a
> >
> > ICANN doesn't "run" the rootservers, (although I think they would like
> > to have a greater degree of control over the root operators).
>
> Thats almost right.  In fact ICANN DOES RUN one root servers, thats the
> L root server in Los Angeles, and the US Government is in charge of
> E, G, and H root servers operated respectively by the NASA Ames Research
> Center in Mountain View California, the U.S. DOD Network Information
> Center in Vienna Virgnia, and the U.S. Army Research Lab in Aberdeen
> Maryland.
>
> A and J roots are operated by VeriSign Naming and Directory Services.
> They have a number of their servers anycast in places like Dulles VA (5
> roots), Mountain View CA, Seattle WA, Atlanta GA, Los Angeles CA, Miami
> FL, Sunnyvale CA, Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, Tokyo, Seoul and
> Singapore.
>
> So we can say that the U.S. of A. controls either directly or indirectly
> six of the root servers with J root having instances in 13 locations of
> which six are in foreign countries - i.e. outside the U.S.
>
> The remainder of the root server operators have no contracts with anyone
> and are completely independent operators.
>
> Have a look at the current status of root operations:
>
> http://www.root-servers.org/
>
> So we can say 7 of the root operators are open for business.
>
> > Does anyone really believe ICANN will change their location
> > of incorporation based on WSIS outcomes?
>
> I beleive there is no need.  ICANN's days are numbered.
>
> cheers
> joe baptista
>
> Joe Baptista, Official Public-Root Representative and Lobbyist to the
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