[Chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC comments on WGIG report

[Franck Martin]

Steve,

I guess it predates ICANN, but putting such a statement in the WGIG
report implicates that there can be only 13 root servers and that's it.
So many countries cannot have a root server. I find this statement
highly misleading and in defavor of ICANN.

Is the limitation you explain still true with IPv6? I guess the root
servers have an IPv6 address now.

Cheers


Steve Crocker wrote:

> Franck,
>
> The formula of 13 root servers predates ICANN.  It's approximately 
> the number of addresses that fit into one packet and is related to 
> the technological limitations in starting up DNS service for a 
> client.  Each of the 13 addresses corresponds to one of the 13 root 
> server operations, lettered A though M.  Many of these servers use 
> anycast to provide multiple distributed servers, as you suggested.
>
> Steve
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> Steve Crocker
> steve at shinkuro.com
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> On Aug 9, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
>
>> [PS: Michael can you send me the attachment again, it got removed  on
>> the way by our anti-virus scan engine]
>>
>> I have a question about the WGIG report, it states that there can 
>> only be 13 root servers due to technological issues. Is that true.  I
>> suppose these 13 are without counting the anycast servers? I fear 
>> here another go at discrediting ICANN?
>>
>>

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