[governance] 2013 outlook from RIPE

[Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch]

Hi,

"root service" - if understood as maintaining a copy of the DNS root zone file, keeping it available for those attempts at name resolution that do hit the DNS, mostly due to misconfigured networks, and, for some root-zone operators, propagating and maintaining the files in numerous anycast servers - is a cost center for all who do it.

It is not different when you go one layer out, to ccTLDs for example. Louis like none other of us is well positioned to ask AFNIC (.fr manager) why they invest in Anycast, as per the news in http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/2778/show/afnic-deploys-its-own-anycast-cloud-1.html

For ICANN it is a cost center and the function is performed for acquiring direct experience and metrics, as well as enabling others through anycasts. It is a cost center and challenged by some in the community for that reason. Couldn't be clearer.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty




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Desde: pouzin at gmail.com [pouzin at gmail.com] en nombre de Louis Pouzin (well) [pouzin at well.com]
Enviado el: jueves, 21 de febrero de 2013 12:48
Hasta: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Asunto: [governance] 2013 outlook from RIPE

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:39 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com<mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com>> wrote:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/internet-governance-and-the-ripe-ncc-the-year-ahead

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Interesting to know about RIPE policies.

Who pays for the infrastructure ? Something is missing.

Who pays for root service ? Taxpayers in all countries.
Since most rootops are government funded institutions.

Who makes money out of root service ?
Mostly ICANN, and Verisign, inter alia. And no tax.

Louis
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