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

[Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal]

Thanks for your email David

1_
After few reports and features on Internet, I did noticed for some time that Jon Postel died in October 1998 weeks before the ICANN was incorporated. For some reason, I believe the two events are very muck linked. But what was your point to mention his death?

2_
I like in your comment the 'trivial' aspect of re-rooting of the master-slaves-new slaves root servers. It shows that we are indeed facing a political issue (something that could come out of, whatever one calls it: consensus, good will, agreement, treaty, convention, charter...), and not a technical issue. That was also my understanding. So happy to have this confirmed.

JC
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Jean-Christophe 


Le 9 déc. 2013 à 23:46, David Conrad a écrit :

> 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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