[governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still...)

[parminder]

On Sunday 05 August 2012 06:10 PM, parminder wrote:
> (snip)
>
> 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....

I read from 
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2003-September/001075.html 
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?

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.

parminder



>
> 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.
>
> Parminder
>
>>
>> regards
>> parminder
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> -drc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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