To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: The root nameservers will be replaced August 1st Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:43:38 -0700 From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>

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If the information in the following message means what I think it means in then somebody is colocating an entire new set of root nameservers at exchange points within the USA if not internationally.

Yes. However, we are expecting exchange point operators to show some kind of common sense, which means asking the IANA before they sign onto such a project. [...]

I would like to think that, at lease in a general sense, the exchange point operators will not ask their customers what type of traffic the customer expects to transmit across an exchange point. Granted, connecting a host to an exchange point might warrant greater scrutiny than connecting a network.... More interestingly, if someone wants to create an alternative set of root servers, there is no particularly good reason for them to be located at exchange points, (unless I am confused about what networks are all about...). True, servers at exchange points should exhibit greater availability, but that is probably not the largest challenge faced by alternative root servers. -tjs