[governance] DMP} Statement on Process and Objectives for the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance

[David Conrad]

Jean-Christophe,

On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net> wrote:
> When Jon Postel re-rooted 7 or 8 of the 12 root servers to another 'master' (away from #13), the  heads of these 7/8 servers immediately agreed to do so. What's the difference with today?

1. Jon died.
2. Relationships between the IANA and the root server operators, the US government, and other related parties have become more well understood and/or formalized in the decade+ since the event.  Back when that change of distribution master occurred, it was more of a ... collegial environment than a business environment.

> Does that mean such a move is not that 'difficult' to do on a technical level - not talking about everyone's reaction in the chain. But just technically, would that be 'very' difficult?

Changing the master distribution server for the root zone is technically trivial (it requires changing one or two IP addresses and a shared secret in a configuration file).

I suspect the challenging bit will be getting universal agreement among the various actors on who the new master distribution server operator is.  This will most likely be a non-technical issue.

Regards,
-drc

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