Perhaps we shouldn't be saying "post-ICANN" as we're in "ICANN age" now, if they were to be gone, it then be "post-ICANN" and things might even move faster (or not at all :) ... But seriously are there any volunteers there to run root name servers in Europe and Asia or are people now expecting to get paid to it through ICANN contract. We do need root name server for every continent and perhaps something like "official mirror" should be considered where somebody would run nameserver with complete mirror of all zones that root name server would have but it would not be considered "official root" name server (but ISPs in its region would know about and us it). Are other regions ever considered something like this to ease load on current root servers or perhaps as a first step to having root server there?
patience grasshopper. :) pushing "J" to a distinctly different broadcast domain is the first step to pushing that instance elsewhere. pre-ICANN, things moved fairly quickly as compared to post-ICANN. --bill