[discuss] Roadmap for globalizing IANA

[James Seng]

If we can separate the debate on control over namespace vs the actual
operation of the root server (or its anycast consetallation), we can divide
the political problem of the root servers by half :-)


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:28 AM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:

> On Mar 3, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was just trying sight past comments/thread about having multiple
> alternate root servers (to perhaps break the "perceived" ICANN monopoly
> (which i agree does not make sense either :) )
>
> I understand, however just for clarity (and somewhat orthogonal to this
> thread), there is nothing wrong with having multiple root servers or server
> systems.  What matters is the namespace, that is the universe of all
> possible names. How that namespace is implemented, whether it is on the
> "traditional" name servers or ORSN or via ISP's resolvers  mirroring the
> root zone or my copying the root zone and installing it on my laptop, is
> irrelevant (particularly given DNSSEC).  Where things break down is when
> people want _different_ namespaces at the same time they expect those
> namespaces to interoperate and not leak.
>
> Regards,
> -drc
>
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-James Seng
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