On May 17, 2024, at 10:14 PM, Bill Woodcock <wo...@pch.net> wrote: >> On May 18, 2024, at 02:30, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: >> So Cogent operates a root server because they bought PSI who ran a >> root server and ICANN has never chosen to throw down the gauntlet. > > As John said, ICANN has nothing to do with who runs root servers.
Wrong in 2 ways: 1) ICANN runs one of root servers. 2) https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=120820189 > Last I knew, NTIA still believed that NTIA selects the root server operators. I doubt even NTIA would _ever_ have said this, and certainly not since the IANA Functions transition. This is simply not how the relationship between NTIA and ICANN operated (pre-transition, after transition it is even less). > Eventually the last person at NTIA who still knows what that means will > retire, and then nobody in the USG will believe that they have > responsibility. Then, ICANN lawyers will presumably start insinuating that, > actually, ICANN can do what it wants there. Which they’ve already laid the > groundwork for by failing to reassign the L-root nameserver for the last > twenty-two years. Not a task that should take twenty-two years, in my > opinion… CGI is perfectly capable, and there are no root servers > administered in the southern hemisphere. State and Commerce were considering > reassigning it as an apology for the Rousseff spying incident in 2013, but > they didn’t quite get it together to act. Interesting theory. Regards, -drc
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