[governance] "Oversight"

[parminder]

While the below discussion may be of use in its own right, I may clarify 
that when I talked about cost, it was the cost for a root server 
operator to not comply with the authoritative root zone file, in terms 
of the disruptions etc that it may cause... I want referring to the 
financial costs of setting up a root server.... parminder

On Wednesday 13 June 2012 07:22 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> Jean-Louis,
>
> On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK wrote:
>>
>> I think Parminder's fears are right, especially for those countries 
>> (and they the majority) who don't have neither the financial, nor the 
>> technical, nor the human resources to establish, to operate and to 
>> maintain/develop the "root mirror architecture" you mention in your 
>> reply.
>>
>
> The cost of deploying an anycast root instance of at least one root 
> server is:
>
> - About US$3000 or so for the hardware
> - A rack unit of rackspace, an ethernet connection with unhindered 
> Internet connectivity, and power for the hardware
> - Sufficient technical expertise to allow the hardware to announce 
> itself to the routing system
>
> The cost for mirroring the root zone in an ISP's caching server is:
>
> - Sufficient technical expertise to configure a resolver to 
> automatically mirror the root zone
> -- or --
> - Sufficient technical expertise to copy the root zone and install it 
> by hand.
>
> Pretty much any full-service ISP anywhere in the world can meet either 
> of these requirements.
>
>  Regards,
> -drc
>
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