Bill;
> % If a name server is hosted with an ISP, does that give the ISP a commercial
> % advantage in anyway, for example, in marketing, or in negotiating peering
> % agreements, or similar?
>
> Yes, hosting a server does provide a commercial advantage. There
> is no way to escape it.
>
> This concern was what drove the placement of the four additional
> root servers that were created in 1995. Many ISPs expressed
> interest in hosting. The principle reason was that it provided
> a competative advantage, hence the model that was chosen was to
> have one entity, usually a membership or constituency based
> entity operate the node, with physical placement being directed
> by short RTTs within a region and good connectivity to the
> other servers for the domain.
Hmmm, if so, ISPs running root servers are motivated to act against
anycast root servers, I'm afraid.
Masataka Ohta
