Re: root name servers

How about trying to move some of the root name servers to the exchange points?

This will make them avaliable to all ISP/NSP's regardless of peering arrangements with others and would also improve connectivity to them.

For security and stability reasons (aswell as political) they should not be run by a single organisation.

This is already being done. You have one at the DGix, the Internic machine is being moved, and there is a proposal to move/add additional servers to other exchange points around the globe. What else would you suggest doing? I'm working on a plan to restructure the mbone topology to better reflect the current actual topology. There are some other ideas in the mill. -- --bill