[governance] Milestone Agreement Reached Between ICANN, and F Root Server Operator, Internet Systems Consortium

[Ian Peter]

Agreed, this is important - even more so as Paul Vixie would be the most
progressive of the root zone operators and has also been involved with ORSN.

Do we have any m ore details on the nature of the agreement and what it
recognizes?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at internatif.org] 
Sent: 06 January 2008 08:19
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] Milestone Agreement Reached Between ICANN, and F Root
Server Operator, Internet Systems Consortium

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-04jan08.htm

"First-of-its-kind agreement recognizes mutual responsibilities,
supports enhanced Internet stability"

The management of root name servers have always been a dark spot of
Internet governance. Nobody knows about it and nobody cares (there
have been a few papers by Karl Auerbach and that's all).

Incredible as it may seems, a function which is so essential for the
DNS (and therefore for the vast majority of Internet uses) have always
been done without any sort of formal agreement. Nobody knows why
Verisign manages two name servers and Neustar zero, what could be done
if a root name server operator provides a bad service, how root name
servers could be added, retired or changed. In practice, the set of
root name servers is now cast in stone.

Some persons believe it is better that way and that the service is
better done by the present volunteers than by a mono-governemental
bureaucracy (ICANN) or a multi-governemental one (ITU).

So, this move is important. As ICANN says, it is indeed the first
formalization of the relationship between ICANN and a root name server
operator. 

I see what ICANN obtains. I'm very unsure about the gains for ISC. Was
it a necessary condition to obtain the announcement of ISC IPv6
addresses in the root-servers.net zone?
(http://lists.oarci.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2007-December/002192.html)



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