New addresses for b.root-servers.net

Sun Jun 4 15:04:02 UTC 2023

On Sat 2023-06-03 23:00:33+0200 Terrence wrote:
> Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but why are you
> renumbering at all?
> 
> Of course the diversification of RIRs is a good thing, but couldn't
> that be accomplished just as well by transferring the current
> allocation to LACNIC?

Hi Terrence,

DNS Root Server addresses from ARIN are assigned from the critical
infrastructure pool, and ARIN policy does not allow them to be
transferred to another RIR. The relevant policy section is:

8.4. Inter-RIR Transfers to Specified Recipients

[...]

Conditions on source of the transfer:

    [...]
    Address resources from a reserved pool (including those designated
    in Section 4.4 and 4.10) are not eligible for transfer.

Regards,
--
Robert Story 
USC Information Sciences Institute <http://www.isi.edu/>
Networking and Cybersecurity Division