On 18 Dec 2020, at 11:29, Eliot Lear wrote: > My friend, what makes you think that root servers will even be relevant in > just a few years? For all intents and purposes, they may well have moved, > without anyone having noticed, from their nicely distributed view today, both > geographically and politically, to… Cloudflare + one or two others.
He he he... I think it is important in the discussions we do not mix up discussions about the root server operators, distribution of the root zone, and the root zone service. Yes, interchanged a bit and mixed as in any Venn diagram, but still a bit separated. That said, it is not ME that see the importance, it is EU Commission that do. And that by itself might be a discussion item for this WG. > If the browsers are going to be sending queries over DoH to Cloudflare or > even just to their own infrastructure, aren’t they the root servers? Maybe > occasionally they will query to see if something has changed, but they can > decide whether to accept that change. I think at least we in the EU will discuss this during 2021. > That is the concern that the commission and ENISA should seriously consider. They to some degree do. See the paper on "the need to create a European DNS service". Patrik > Eliot > >> On 16 Dec 2020, at 17:15, Patrik Fältström via cooperation-wg >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 16 Dec 2020, at 16:29, Marco Hogewoning wrote: >> >>> Dear colleagues, >>> >>> Over the last few days, the European Commission has published a number of >>> proposals and strategy documents that lay out its plans for the digital >>> economy. These include the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets >>> Act (DMA) and a policy document outlining the European Union's >>> Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade. >>> >>> We are currently working through these documents to assess their impact on >>> our operations, the multistakeholder ecosystem and the Internet at large. >>> However, we’ve already seen that the cybersecurity strategy document makes >>> a reference to our role as one of the DNS root server operators based in >>> the EU, with a plan to "assess the role of these operators in guaranteeing >>> that the Internet remains globally accessible in all circumstance.” >>> >>> We have issued a short public response to this point in particular, which >>> you can find here: >>> https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-response-to-the-eu2019s-cybersecurity-strategy-for-the-digital-decade >>> >>> Any feedback you might have on this statement is welcome. >> >> FWIW, as a root server operator being based in the EU we at Netnod fully >> support what you wrote. Our views are very similar. >> >> Patrik Fältström >> Technical Director and Head of Security >> Netnod
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