[governance] Thought experiment on TLD removal from the root zone (was Re: DMP} Statement...)

[Norbert Bollow]

David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Jovan Kurbalija <jovank at diplomacy.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > The US 'deletion’ move is almost as improbable as the chance that
> > the Higgs Boson experiment in CERN will create anti-matter field
> > which can siphon the Earth through a black hole.
> 
> An interesting thought experiment would be what would happen if the
> UN asked (and the US government complied) with such a request.
> Assuming both ICANN and Verisign abided by the US government request:
> 
> First, the root server operators would need to accept the removal.
> They ultimately control the DNS data they serve. If they do nothing
> special, they will serve the updated zone. If the change removing the
> TLD was initiated using the regular process (that is, through the
> IANA), I suspect there would be a high likelihood most if not all of
> the root servers would comply.  However, if the change came outside
> of normal processes (which is almost certainly the case since the
> normal process would require the country in question to agree to be
> removed), I believe at least some of the root servers would refuse to
> accept the modified zone.

Wouldn't that cause DNSSEC validation to start failing after a couple
of days?

Greetings,
Norbert
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