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

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Tue Aug 7 04:45:14 EDT 2012


On Tuesday 07 August 2012 01:59 PM, Chris Buckridge wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2012, at 8:54 AM, parminder wrote:
>
>> As a start, to keep from away from the spectre of strengthening statist controls, allocate them to the 4 RIRs in Asia-Pacific, Africa, LA and Europe. After all RIPE, the RIR of North America, already runs a root server.

> Hello Parminder, all,
>
> I suspect this was a temporary misstatement on your part, Parminder, but I think it is worth correcting the record given the context of this (very interesting) exchange. RIPE NCC (which is secretariat of the open RIPE community and operator of K-root) is the RIR for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, not North America (ARIN serves as RIR for that region).


Thanks for correcting, Chris. Yes sorry a mis-statement. parminder
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> http://k.root-servers.org/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris Buckridge
> RIPE NCC
>
>
>


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