[Chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC comments on WGIG report

[Steve Crocker]

Anycasting provides service to all countries who want it.  All the  
rest is just appearances and pride.

Steve


Steve Crocker
steve at shinkuro.com


On Aug 9, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Franck Martin wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve Crocker
>> steve at shinkuro.com
>>
>>
>> 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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