Wasn't the original idea a decentralized network that could survive a nuke attack? Should decentralization of the root enourage decentralizalization of governance? -- ken
>>If a great thunderbolt from heaven descended upon ICANN and took out 13 DoC >>controlled root servers, would your zones still work? > >Yes, absolutely. That's one of the major motivating factors for what we're >doing, and in fact, if you adopt the recommended practice of running your own >private root server [1] then the ORSC servers could get taken out by that >same thunderbolt and everything would still work for us. "root servers" >are a minor convenience, not at all a strict necessity. > >[1] http://cr.yp.to/dnsroot.html or http://support.open-rsc.org > >I do this on my home Windows box - you don't need unix to do this. > > >-- > Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] > A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or > for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used > in a bad sense. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
