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Re: United States Says No! Internet is Ours!

George Mitchell (george@m5p.com)
Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:25:11 -0700

Pat Townson wrote:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But although the 'real roots' work just
> fine, as you note, someone starting their own competing root server
> could bypass all the silly requirements of things like ICANN couldn't
> he?

Everything you say is correct. It's trivial to create your own root
name server. The problem is in getting anyone _else_ to pay attention
to it.

The people who, in practical terms, operate the root name servers are
a pretty independent bunch. Regardless of ICANN's nominal authority
over them, they're not going to do anything to destroy the integrity
of the internet. And that's why it's a good thing that the addresses
of the current root name servers are so deeply embedded into so many
of the domain name resolvers out there.

-- George Mitchell

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