Re: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

["Page Howe" <page@pagehowe.com>]

As more of a reader of the list, thank you for the clarification of the
incorrect factual information.

  Taking me back to domain names 101 am i correct in saying that the root
which ICANN "runs" is simply a list of the name servers on which to find the
server names and locations for a specific top level domain like .uk?

And further the ICANN/IANA function is to maintain that list.

Page Howe
www.kidsdomains.org




----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>
To: "List Admin" <patrick@quad.net.au>
Cc: "Bruce James" <bmj@keyname.net>; "[ga-roots]" <ga-roots@dnso.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall


>
> Monday, June 04, 2001, 8:14:33 AM, List Admin wrote:
>
> > From: Bruce James <bmj@keyname.net>
> > Subject: How the sky might fall
> > To: Roots <ga-roots@dnso.org>
> > Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 21:30:46 -0500
>
> > How the sky might fall
>
> > As we mentioned earlier, moving to "liberated" DNS servers wouldn't be
the
> > end of the world. It could happen, silently and overnight, without
anyone
> > noticing. And it could happen like this.
>
> > Suppose the .uk names were ultimately registered in a single text file -
as
> > they all are right now - not in Herndon Virginia, home of the NSI
(actually,
> > it's owned by NSI's parent company Verisign) but on a server in the
Anyplace
> > Islands. British users, or anyone else wanting to click to a .uk domain
> > would need to access Anyplace or one of its downstream name servers. How
> > would they do that? Through their ISP.
>
> > As Peter Dengate Thrush points out, it only takes a major country code
> > administrator from say, the Germany, the UK or France to take its names
to a
> > liberated domain, and all the ISPs in that nation would be obliged to
point
> > to the new root server. There'd be no need to fiddle with your Network
> > Control Panel - it would happen without you even noticing.
>
> This is, of course, absolutely untrue and absurd.
>
> The .uk domains are not in fact served from NSI/Verisign controlled
> nameservers.
>
> NS1.NIC.UK, which is controlled by Nominet, the .UK Registry, is the
> nameserver where those names are hosted.
>
> The situation described above is not technically sound.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh
> mailto:william@userfriendly.com
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