[governance] Root Server

[Carlos A. Afonso]

This is weird -- anycast servers are the responsibility of each anycast
operator. The rest is the initial investment for a basic cluster.
Operation is pretty straigthforward. I cannot arrive at "hundreds of
thousands" of dollars for a mirroring service.

--c.a.

On 07/24/2014 12:13 PM, McTim wrote:
> machines, power cooling, staff, rent, etc, multiplied by the numbers
> of anycast servers you set up in various places.  Add staff time for
> various Internet coordination meetings, HR overhead, admin costs and
> it can add up pretty quick.
> 
> Verisign I'm sure, spends a lot more than University of Md, but
> running a global rootserver does have significant costs and
> responsibilities.
> 
> DRC is right when he spoke about censorship, but my post was more
> along the lines of "would they be willing to do it if it included
> names they didn't like".
> 
> Sorry to have been unclear.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>> McT, where (or whom) do the "several hundred thousand USD per year" go
>> to? I cannot imagine the operation of a simple server cluster costing
>> this much by orders of magnitude.
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> On 07/24/2014 08:43 AM, McTim wrote:
>>> so mathematically, we could have 20 rootops instead of 13 once all
>>> rootops are v6 enabled.
>>>
>>> I'm sure there are 7 more orgs who would be willing to pony up several
>>> hundred thousand USD per year to take on the responsibility of running
>>> a rootserver, including some governments.
>>>
>>> The question in my mind is "would those governments be willing to
>>> serve the root without censorship?"
>>>
>>> So India for example might be willing to pay, but would they be keen
>>> to serve a root with .tata or .hindu in it?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:03 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
>>> <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
>>>> FYI
>>>>
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lee-dnsop-scalingroot-00
>>>>
>>>> Wolfgang
>>>>
>>>>
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