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 21:42:50 JST
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<m112CKm-00000BC@roam.psg.com>; from "Randy Bush" at Jul 8, 99 4:27 am
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Subject:
Re: Topological Motivation for draft-ohta-root-servers-01.txt?
Randy; > > Then, according to Mark's example, if there is a root server in > > France and there is no technical grounds to have one more in Monaco, > > what will happen? > > insufficient data. the example talked about countries as opposed to > network topology, bandwidth availability, ... The example is Mark's and should be assuming appropriate network topology and bandwidth availability in related locations. > > If you want it, how can you enforce it? What if, Monaco government > > legislates that Internet users and providers in Monaco must use > > Monaco local root servers? > > it is said that once upon a time the tennessee legislature declared that pi > had the value three. this may have affected my perception of government > edicts. In this case, the technical fact is that: 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. Who, do you think, is attempting the stupid enforcement? Masataka Ohta