Re: Commercial Advantages of Hosting Name Servers

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> % 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.

i can't find the part of your message which describes the commercial
advantage.

randy