[dns-wg] Global Vs local node data in www.root-servers.org

Mon Mar 17 15:51:03 UTC 2014

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:11:40AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
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> On 17 Mar 2014, at 10:27, manning bill <bmanning at isi.edu> wrote:
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> > alas, our service predates Joe’s marvelous text.
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> > “B” provides its services locally to its upstream ISPs.
> > We don’t play routing tricks, impose routing policy, or attempt to 
> > influence prefix announcement.
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> In the taxonomy I just shared, that makes the origin nodes of B all "global nodes".
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> To clarify though, I certainly wasn't trying to suggest that the things I described were new or original when I was writing in 2003. Anycast had already been in use for quite some time by a variety of people at that time.
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> It's specifically the terms "local" and "global" in a DNS anycast context that I was apologising for :-)
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> Joe

	No apology needed.  I was clarifying why "B" is listed as a local node.
	That it doesn't fit you taxonomy is fine - but it does need an explaination.

/bill