John, On May 19, 2024, at 12:53 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
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.
Yes. While technically, there is the capability (they are, after all merely entries in a database that get dumped into a file), the question of authority (ignoring court order) is less clear cut and certainly does not reside in ICANN org, PTI, or Verisign. Regards, -drc