[governance] Clues for WCIT issues and prospects

[McTim]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
> OK, McTim, I take care of your objections.
> I'm only the interviewer.

right and the premise to your first question was informed by a
paradigm that is no longer true!

>
> I'll discuss your arguments with the author, who is quite an expert,
> especially in routing, in order to find where could be misunderstandings.
>
> About Verisign, I agree that it's a short expression for an actual reality:
> US gov COULD cut DNS access to any country in the world. Verisign would just
> execute orders.


Please explain how this is technically possible.  To my knowledge, it
is not (and I have worked for 2 root-server operators).

Are you talking about removing a ccTLD from the root zone?

Are you talking about Verisign dropping queries from IP address blocks
to the 2 root servers they operate?

While the first is not possible for the USG to accomplish, the second
is technically possible, but
doesn't mean that a nation state would be denied access to the DNS
root from all root servers.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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