[governance] Root Server

[McTim]

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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Cheers,

McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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