----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Conrad" <d...@virtualized.org>
> On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > >> Of course, one might ask why those well known anycast addresses are > >> "owned" by 12 different organizations instead of being "golden" > >> addresses specified in an RFC or somesuch, but that gets into root > >> server operator politics... > > > > there are perfectly valid reasons why you might want to renumber > > one, > > Ignoring historical mistakes, what would they be? > > > the current institutional heterogeneity has pretty good prospects > > for > > survivability. > > "Golden" addresses dedicated to root service (as opposed to 'owned' by > the root serving organization) means nothing regarding who is > operating servers behind those addresses. It does make it easier to > change who performs root service operation (hence the politics). Exactly: it *centralizes control* over what the roots are. The second- and third-order resultants of that observation will be left as an exercise for the student; politics are off-topic for NANOG :-) Cheers, -- jra
