Re: Re[7]: [ga-roots] Re[4]: [ga-icann] interesting California lawto consider

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, at 11:56 [=GMT-0700], William X. Walsh wrote:
> Sunday, June 17, 2001, 11:44:47 AM, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> 
> >> Further, the primary servers used by all 3 of those sets are also
> >> serving the root zone, providing no separation at all between root and
> >> TLD service.  
> 
> > So what? The same things could (and in part [edu in any case] still
> > can) be said about the legacy/USG/ICANN root until recently. The
> > seperation process between root-servers.net and gtld-servers.net there
> > is not complete yet... (Remember how a.ROOT-servers.net lost the .COM
> > zone some 10 months ago?)
> 
> Yes, all but for edu it is complete.

Well, eh, arpa, gov, and mil partially...

> > And what about the ccTLDs? A lot of them use the same servers in
> > addition to a nameserver in their own country. 
> 
> The difference is that they almost ALWAYS run the primary (and usually
> a secondary) themselves.
> 
> That is NOT the case looking at the ORSC root.

True for some, not the "vast majority", as you claimed. Not all alt
TLDs are that 'active', e.g. because they are starting up. Some may
very well be compared with e.g. the ccTLD .SO, which uses
granitecayon.com :-)

If you like to argue this, please, figures. You know way better than I
how to use grep etc. And you made the claim.

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