On 21 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
So, if a root server was placed in Australia, to whom's network should it be attached. Would OPTUS and Telstra cooperate and jointly provide connectivity and diversity? Or is the most connected place in the asia-pacific region still the west coast of the US?
Depends. Japan & HongKong are pretty well connected and there are a number of other reasonably well connected places in SEA. And the past rule set seemed to call out for root servers to be placed "one hop off a public exchange" and run by a neutral party. Hence "M" is run by the Wide project off NSPIXP-n and "K" is run by RIPE off LINX. One might expect that -IF- a server was to become available and Oz was to actually acceed to hosting a server, that it would be one hop off an exchange, say WAIX or SYD-BONE and run by... say APNIC. In the past, Telstra has not been willing to host a root server. --bill