Randy,
Are you suggesting that marketing folk would not take advantage of such a
situation?
Rgds,
-drc
At 04:23 PM 12/10/2000 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > % 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.
>
>i can't find the part of your message which describes the commercial
>advantage.
>
>randy
