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

Roland Perry roland at internetpolicyagency.com
Wed Aug 8 08:15:33 EDT 2012


In message <50224879.9050609 at itforchange.net>, at 16:37:37 on Wed, 8 Aug 
2012, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes

>> Well, there are other possible scenarios that you haven't listed, but 
>>number (2) is much closer to the current situation than (1).
>
>That would mean that it makes the system much more capture-resistant if 
>instead of the present distribution of root server operators, 9 in the 
>US and 3 in US friendly countries, we have these servers

server operators. Their [anycast] servers are spread quite widely 
already.

>distributed in a more geopolitically equitous manner - as I suggested, 
>for a start RIRs of Africa, LA and Asia Pacific get one each, and 
>perhaps one more in each of these continents at a reputed public 
>technical institute. What do you say?

I think my task here is done. A technically consistent question is being 
asked, I'll leave the politics to others.
-- 
Roland Perry

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