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On 11/8/23 2:23 PM, Bryan Fields wrote:
> On 11/8/23 2:25 PM, owen@Delong.com wrote:
>> Seems irresponsible to me that a root-server (or other critical DNS provider) would engage in a
>> peering war to the exclusion of workable DNS.
>
> I've brought this up before and the root servers are not really an IANA function IIRC.  There's not
> much governance over them, other than what's on root-servers.org.  I think a case could be made that
> C is in violation of the polices on that page and RFC 7720 section 3.
>
> Basically none of the root servers want to change this and thus it's never going to change.  DNS
> will fail and select another to talk to, and things will still work.

At what point does HE just host a second C root and announce the same IPv6s? Might irritate Cogent,
but its not more "bad" than Cogent failing to uphold the requirements for running a root server.

Matt