Hello Matt,
Thursday, May 10, 2001, 3:48:39 PM, Matt Prigge wrote:
> I did not realize that. It was my assumption that the government had
> delegated the responsibility of managing the namespace to them, not just the
> servers. Now I really dont understand where ICANN is coming from with a lot
> of this stuff.
The USG did delegate (in essence, though not technically), but the
point is that the there is nothing to enforce this concept that some
have that namespace is a "single" thing.
The only control the root servers have over the internet is that which
they are given by the co-operation of the network operators who point
their dns servers to use those roots for nameserver resolution.
There is nothing that requires them to do so.
So there is no way that the USG can mandate that all dns resolution
derives from ICANN controlled root servers. It would, in fact, be
impossible for them to do so.
ICANN controls the namespace that they have control over. What
happens outside of that namespace, in new.net or other privately run
alternative root server networks, is outside of ICANN's control.
ICANN cannot tell me what to put in my dns servers. Nor can New.net.
However, I do voluntarily resolve through the root server system that
ICANN has at least symbolic control over. I also use the stub
configuration offered by new.net to resolve most (if not all) of their
TLDs with my nameservers.
It is only through our mutual agreement that we use ICANN's root
server system.
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