Bryan, On Oct 23, 2021, at 5:56 PM, Bryan Fields <br...@bryanfields.net> wrote: >> Excepting temporary failures, they are as far as I am aware. Why do you >> think they aren’t? > > I can't reach C, 2001:500:2::c, from many places in v6 land. My home and
> secondary data center can't reach it, but my backup VM's at another data > center can. Ah. Cogent. I suspect IPv6 peering policies. Somebody should bake a cake. >> However, the IANA team is not the enforcement arm of the Internet. If a >> root server operator chooses to not abide by RFC 7720, there is nothing the >> IANA team can do unilaterally other than make the root server operator >> aware of the fact. > > Surely IANA has the power to compel a root server operator to abide by policy > or they lose the right to be a root server? To compel? No. Not in the slightest. That is not how the root server system works. This is a (very) common misconception. There has been some effort to create a governance model for the root server system (see https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-037-15jun18-en.pdf) but I believe it has gotten bogged down in the question of “what do you do when a root server operator isn’t doing the job ‘right’ (whatever that means and after figuring out who decides) but doesn’t want to give up being a root server operator?”. It’s a hard question, but it isn’t the folks at IANA who answer it. Regards, -drc
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