Michael, et. al. ] If the information in the following message means what I think it means in ] then somebody is colocating an entire new set of root nameservers at ] exchange points within the USA if not internationally. ] ] Can they do this? Or are they bluffing? Of course they can do that. And I can start queuing data at my router to send all tcp packets w/ 1000 bytes, and set the priority bit. I can also send a constant 1M ping stream to every ISP's web server, and I can finger every machine every 5 minutes to see if Sean is on to ask him a question. I can draw OC3 PVCs between the NAPs and sell web content more cheaply than any other ISP can draw a nationwide network. I can send appletalk packets across my WAN and attempt to send them to my peers, I can build my own IXP and sponser, in addition to IP: IPX; and Appletalk traffic! In fact, I can claim 10/8, and if I have enough interests in the world, and enough people can be bullied into it, I can route that to you, and it can appear in the global tables! The larger issue, is who cares? Who will give a whoot about what I do? And what are the ramifications of them doing it? Concisely, how will people deal with it? Perhaps I missed the intent of your letter. Are you implying that an official body is making a change in policy such that a new hw/sw system is used and their geographic points change from pseudo random placement, to NAP/IXP placement? Or perhaps you were a bit dismayed that some entrepeneurs are trying to make things better outside the antiquated^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H 'system'? -alan Chief Promulgator, Second Class, Anarchic Intelligentsia ps -> this system wanted NAP/IXPs to be a free socialist meeting point for providers (beyond hw/colo costs), as well, but capitalist forces changed the economics when people stopped peering freely.....