[governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] US/ICANN agreement to be over

[McTim]

Hello Peter,


On 8/12/06, Peter Dambier <peter at echnaton.serveftp.com> wrote:


> > In addition, the paper says; "The continued operations of these roots by
> > Commerce can be subject to abuse." , but below, you say there are no
> > contracts. These two positions are contradictory to me.
>
>
> This is what is happening to Iraq's Internet domain
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/30/iraq_internet_domain/

You are obviously conflating two different sorts of things.

One is the question of who operates the 13 root servers and under what
"contracts", which is the topic of discussion.

The other is who operates a cctld.

Let's not confuse the two.

BTW, the article you cited is from 2004.

>
>
> Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/09/iraq_its_domain/

that was from 2003

Things have changed since then:

http://www.iana.org/reports/iq-report-05aug05.pdf

>
>
> So theregister.co.uk are saying that there exist problems with Iraq ccTLD.

Well, don't believe everything you read online!

http://www.iana.org/root-whois/iq.htm

So the .ig cctld was redelegated. IIRC, it was taken away from an
imprisoned guy who never got around to registering any domain names.

This is an iana process, that again, should not be conflated with
rootserver operations.


[mctim at toybox ~]$ dig @B.DNS-SERVER.IQ. soa  iq

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @B.DNS-SERVER.IQ. soa iq
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15594
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;iq.                            IN      SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
iq.                     7200    IN      SOA     a.dns-server.iq.
hostmaster.dns-server.iq. 200507081 900 900 604800 86400

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
iq.                     7200    IN      NS      d.dns-server.iq.
iq.                     7200    IN      NS      e.dns-server.iq.
iq.                     7200    IN      NS      f.dns-server.iq.
iq.                     7200    IN      NS      a.dns-server.iq.
iq.                     7200    IN      NS      b.dns-server.iq.
iq.                     7200    IN      NS      c.dns-server.iq.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.dns-server.iq.        7200    IN      A       194.117.56.1
b.dns-server.iq.        7200    IN      A       194.117.57.1
c.dns-server.iq.        7200    IN      A       194.117.58.1
d.dns-server.iq.        7200    IN      A       194.117.59.1
e.dns-server.iq.        7200    IN      A       194.117.60.1
f.dns-server.iq.        7200    IN      A       194.117.61.1

;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 194.117.57.1#53(194.117.57.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 13 06:25:32 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 270

>
>
> There have been complaints about Verisign misusing their position in control
> of DNS.
>
> http://www.petitioncenter.com/verisign-dns/

Yes, but Sitefinder is gone (ppl are impleneting local versions of it tho)

>
>
> Libya disappears from the Internet
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/13/libya_falls_off_net/

also from 2004. It's there now:

[mctim at toybox ~]$ dig @B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. soa  ly

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. soa ly
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39036
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ly.                            IN      SOA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ly.                     172800  IN      NS      DNS1.LTTNET.NET.
ly.                     172800  IN      NS      NS-LY.RIPE.NET.
ly.                     172800  IN      NS      AUTH02.NS.UU.NET.
ly.                     172800  IN      NS      PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU.
ly.                     172800  IN      NS      DNS.LTTNET.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
DNS.LTTNET.NET.         172800  IN      A       62.240.36.9
DNS1.LTTNET.NET.        172800  IN      A       62.68.42.9
NS-LY.RIPE.NET.         172800  IN      A       193.0.12.125
AUTH02.NS.UU.NET.       172800  IN      A       198.6.1.82
PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU.     172800  IN      A       128.223.32.35

;; Query time: 163 msec
;; SERVER: 192.228.79.201#53(192.228.79.201)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 13 06:16:58 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 231


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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