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Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date:
Thu, 8 Jul 99 11:39:18 JST
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Re: Topological Motivation for draft-ohta-root-servers-01.txt?
Mark; > If there is a root server in France I can see no good > technical need to have one in Monaco. Similarly Singapore > w.r.t. Thialand. You are trying to create a political problem on how to stop people in Monaco have their own root servers. > We should be defining the siting of servers on technical > grounds not politcal ones. No, we are not defining the siting of servers. That is a pure political issue. You can say some root server technically desirable. But, you can't say it technically forbidden. We are documenting a technical operational guideline, after the siting of servers is somehow determined. > If the are politcal reasons are > strong enough they will influence the underlying technolgical > interconnects enough that the technical solution will match > the desired political one. That's what is happening. Masataka Ohta