To:
randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Cc:
mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date:
Thu, 8 Jul 99 16:24:35 JST
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<m1128My-00000BC@roam.psg.com>; from "Randy Bush" at Jul 8, 99 12:13 am
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Subject:
Re: Topological Motivation for draft-ohta-root-servers-01.txt?
Randy; > >> 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. > > i suspect not. Do you remember that European NIC refused some IP address allocation requests because there are private use addresses? > there is a presumed technical problem of a limit on the > number of root server ip addresses. The question is, why do you think it a problem. > talking about countries' rights is creating political > issues. It's fairness, not right. But, if the technical problem is unsolvable, yes, there is a political issue regardless of whatever I talk in the draft. The situation, however, is that there are various ways for some entiry including a contry to have their own root servers. So, I wrote: With administratively scoped unicast addresses, any entity, including a country, can use the addresses for its local root servers and set the scope of the routing ranges of the addresses appropriately. Note that operations similar to that described in this memo are possible today locally without global coordination by any operator who may be irritated by the lack of his control on (sufficiently many) root servers, which may be a source of some operational problems. This memo is an attempt to document the way to solve the problem in a least harmful manner. Masataka Ohta