To:
peter@gradwell.com (Peter Gradwell)
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Bill Manning <bmanning@zed.isi.edu>
Date:
Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:32:21 -0800 (PST)
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<5.0.0.25.0.20001209112142.0349fe80@pop3.gradwell.net> from "Peter Gradwell" at Dec 09, 2000 11:22:21 AM
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Subject:
Re: Commercial Advantages of Hosting Name Servers
% If a name server is hosted with an ISP, does that give the ISP a commercial % advantage in anyway, for example, in marketing, or in negotiating peering % agreements, or similar? Yes, hosting a server does provide a commercial advantage. There is no way to escape it. This concern was what drove the placement of the four additional root servers that were created in 1995. Many ISPs expressed interest in hosting. The principle reason was that it provided a competative advantage, hence the model that was chosen was to have one entity, usually a membership or constituency based entity operate the node, with physical placement being directed by short RTTs within a region and good connectivity to the other servers for the domain. --bill