On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:28:23PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
Basically it sounds like the U.S. Gov't (NTIA)/U.S. Dept of Commerce will take back control of the root name servers from ICANN at some point.
no. they never let go of it. a change to a nameserver for an african cctld has to go through the us dept of commerce. they are saving us from terrorists such as liman. don't you feel safe?
Not that anyone around here thinks Declan McCullagh is an authority or anything (:-), but Kai Ryssdal interviewed him about this on tonight's Marketplace; the piece, modulo a couple of "root server"'s and "web address"'s, is here: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/07/01/PM200507012.html Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me