. (was IPv6 and CDN's)

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Wed Oct 27 03:18:43 UTC 2021


It appears that Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net> said:
>Can you explain how it would work?  Say you have a root server operator who
>starts messing up, is there any ability to remove them?

Nope.  We are fortunate that for over 30 years the root servers have all been
competent and reliable.

>> It’s a hard question, but it isn't the folks at IANA who answer it.
>
>Who does?  Doesn't IANA designate root servers and the . zone?

The root servers are basically the people who have always run the root servers,
give or take a few changes due to mergers and a few additions over a decade ago
to get better geographic diversity.

R's,
John


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