Bryan, On Oct 23, 2021, at 5:56 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
Excepting temporary failures, they are as far as I am aware. Why do you think they aren’t?
I can't reach C, 2001:500:2::c, from many places in v6 land. My home and
secondary data center can't reach it, but my backup VM's at another data center can.
Ah. Cogent. I suspect IPv6 peering policies. Somebody should bake a cake.
However, the IANA team is not the enforcement arm of the Internet. If a root server operator chooses to not abide by RFC 7720, there is nothing the IANA team can do unilaterally other than make the root server operator aware of the fact.
Surely IANA has the power to compel a root server operator to abide by policy or they lose the right to be a root server?
To compel? No. Not in the slightest. That is not how the root server system works. This is a (very) common misconception. There has been some effort to create a governance model for the root server system (see https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-037-15jun18-en.pdf) but I believe it has gotten bogged down in the question of “what do you do when a root server operator isn’t doing the job ‘right’ (whatever that means and after figuring out who decides) but doesn’t want to give up being a root server operator?”. It’s a hard question, but it isn’t the folks at IANA who answer it. Regards, -drc