On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
: This is a formal request to ICANN that they hand over the root server to a : not-for-profit organization. I nominate ISC for this task.
And here, I had thought that most of *.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. were ISC-sponsored, mostly not-for-profit/academic/subsidized servers as it was. To be sure, VeriSign does not control the majority of such servers. 8-)
Nope. VSGN - A, J ISI/EP - B Cogent - C UMD - D NASA - E ISC - F DISA - G USArmy - H Autonomica - I (se) RIPE - K (nl) ICANN - L WIDE - M (jp) ISC controls -one- instance. With anycast, they have lots of copies of "F", but ISC does not sponser any of the other operators or their operations.
You're probably confused that ROOT-SERVERS.NET. != GTLD-SERVERS.NET. The latter hosts COM. and NET. and is run exclusively by VeriSign.
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