Re: Topological Motivation for draft-ohta-root-servers-01.txt?

[marka@isc.org]

> 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.

	No.
> 
> > 	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.

	The whole premise of draft is couched in political terms.

	A country is a political unit.  You have made the assertion
	that each country needs at least a root nameserver.  You
	however have not justified that assertion.

	I can't at the moment see the need for Australia to have
	a root nameserver for political reasons.  I can however see
	why it should have several for technical reasons.  This draft
	may actually provide a way to do that without some of the
	detremental effects related to have a root nameserver.

	I would suggest that the motivation be re-couched in technical
	terms related to response time, load and traffic flows and leave
	the geo-policatical reasons for have a root nameserver to one
	side.

> 
> You can say some root server technically desirable. But, you
> can't say it technically forbidden.

	I didn't say it was 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
> 
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