To:
Bill Manning <bmanning@zed.isi.edu>
CC:
Peter Gradwell <peter@gradwell.com>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date:
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:54:07 +0859 ()
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<200012091832.eB9IWMt17670@zed.isi.edu> from Bill Manning at "Dec9, 2000 10:32:21 am"
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Subject:
Re: Commercial Advantages of Hosting Name Servers
Bill; > % 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. Hmmm, if so, ISPs running root servers are motivated to act against anycast root servers, I'm afraid. Masataka Ohta