[Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

Fri Sep 30 15:05:34 UTC 2005

Peter Dambier wrote:
> The Ankara root injected a number of older records into the DNS resulting
> in false answers to queries. Ankara was also listing as root servers some
> DNS that pointed back to ICANN data and did not resolve the Public-Root.
> This was very unprofessional behavior on behalf of UNIDT resulting in a
> serious violation of their contractual obligations to the Public-Root.

Sounds like chaos.  If only there was some way of co-ordinating a 
central root, managed by a trustworthy, established, stable main player.

A bit like an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has 
responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, 
protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) 
Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system 
management functions.

Has anyone considered this ?