On Sun, 19 May 2024, David Conrad wrote:
They provide this to Verisign, the Root Zone Maintainer, who create the root zone and distribute it to the root server operators.
Technically, IANA provides database change requests to Verisign. The actual database is maintained by the Root Zone Maintainer (hence the name).
Good point. In any event, I think we agree that none of IANA, ICANN, and/or Verisign has the authority to remove one of the root operators, no matter how much someone might dislike their peering policies. R's, John PS: Perhaps the GWG will eventually come up with a way to do that but I'm not holding my breath. It's been six years since RSSAC 037 and 038. I can't blame them for moving very slowly since it would be all too easy to come up with something worse than the current non-system