Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)
William Allen Simpson
wsimpson at greendragon.com
Tue Sep 16 16:50:37 UTC 2003
Bruce Campbell wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>
> > record. Great. Just what we need... To be in an escalating war with the
> > people running the root nameservers.
>
> Please note that the people running the root nameservsers are a different
> set from the people who run the .com and .net nameservers.
>
True, these days, at least in part.
Since the latest zone for .net (and maybe .com according to the
announcement) contains data that
* indicates existance for domains that actually do not exist, and
* incorrect addresses for domains that exist, but are not using the
name service of netSOL cum verisign,
it is arguably not a valid zone file. Therefore, any root server
operators should refuse the improper zone file.
> Please use the slightly more accurate term 'gTLD nameservers' instead of
> tarring the 'root' nameservers with the same brush.
>
We are about to empirically determine the independence of the root
server operators.
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