Re: [IGOVAP]Re:another discussion about management of root server

Why so many people are interested in DNS governance?

Because they hardly know how it works and assume a lot of things which 
are wrong!
I would be curious to know if any of these people on the list you gave 
ever attended an ICANN or IETF meeting. Have you ever been to such meeting.
Do you know there is a program to put root servers in africa (and the 
rest of the world). If your country needs a root server it can be easily 
installed for about USD30,000 all inclusive. You need some bandwidth 
too. Nobody will oppose it. For instance there are root-servers in 
Australia (20million of people) and New Zealand(4Million).
About security, DNS and DNS peering. It is all discussed on the IETF 
(from a technical point of view) and on ICANN from a management point of 
view. If you want to have a peering DNS, then we are in the wrong forum 
to discuss it, because you need technical people that understand the 
Internet protocol to design them. You can give some broad guidelines but 
someobdy has to implement it. Please ask again this question on the IETF 
mailing list and you will get your answers.
If you want to design such thing, as I said the IETF accept any 
submission. What makes any submission a standard, it is because it is 
adopted by all. You will have therefore to do an implementation. You can 
play with your root-server, I don't think somebody will stop you, and if 
it looks great than somebody will use your software or take your 
specifications to do the same.
At nealy every IETF meeting there is a DNS security talk where new 
security concepts are discussed. Security is complex, difficult and need 
specialists. The DNS is fairly reliable, I have no numbers, but I would 
be curious if someone could give some reliability figures of their 
root-servers (uptime) and how many incidents happened with the root servers.
Saying all that, it would be a mistake by IETF and ICANN not to be 
represented at these meeting, so that they can advocate and teach people 
how things work. The main problem of technical people is that as you say 
they are not patient, especially if you have not done your home work. I 
will try to be patient ;)
I do hope, I'm directing you to some areas where you will find some 
answers. I copy this e-mail to the IETF so they can join us in this 
interesting discussion.
I take also the opportunity to add something else on another subject:
ICANN, IETF, APNIC and other meetings are really easy to attend, they 
are video casted, audio casted and even text casted in chat/forum like 
channels. You can easily participate from the confort of your home. I 
did it a couple of times. This is not true with any of the WSIS related 
meeting, where you need to sit in the room, with the proper 
accreditation. I think in some sessions, non-representatives of 
governments were asked to leave the room.
Cheers.

xie wei wrote:

> Why the people in this forum are so impatient? As you
> said if the DNS system of Internet is perfect and
> unassailable, why WGIG listed it on the table
> “Inventory of Public Policy Issues”, and lot of
> members of WGIG have interested in it? Please look at
> the following table, it’s from the WGIG.
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Equitable Distribution of Resources |  Total number   
> of members willing to consider contributing text |
> Names   |Lead/List|
> ------------------------------------------------------
>                 
> Administration of Internet names and IP addresses |     18
> |          Kleinwächter, Sakamaki,    Bicalho, Jensen,
> Al-darrab,    Hassan, Sarr, Hu, Bertola,    Esmat,
> Cheon, Esseboom,    Zangl, Echeberria, Zens,    
> Pisanty, Drake, Sha’ban   | Jensen[wgig-ip] |
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Administration of root server system    | 15       |
> Kleinwächter, Sakamaki,       Bicalho, Jensen,
> Al-darrab,     Miller, Hu, Bertola, Cheon,    
> Esseboom, Zangl,      Echeberria, Zens, Drake,     
> Sha’ban	| Miller[wgig-root]|
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Well, in fact the reason I sent the mail to this forum
> yesterday, is not to censure the ICANN or APNIC or any
> others. On the contrary, I greatly appreciate their
> efforts for the efficiency, reliability and
> speed of the DNS. 
>
> Why they do so much work on it? Maybe, they also
> consider that the number of the root server was not
> enough and the spreading the root server over the
> Internet is a necessary. 
>
> I know that all the efforts they made are available
> now. But I think adding the mirror should not the only
> solution for the problems of DNS. There are still
> further approaches to address the security issue and
> performance issue of the DNS.
>
> For example, to establish a logical peer network
> between each ccTLD server and gTLD server while the
> tree structure is retained within ccTLD and gTLD
> themselves. The domain name resolution can be done
> through the peer network between ccTLD and gTLD
> servers instead of the root server. 
>
> I am not very sure about the feasibility of this
> method. and I am here waiting the “ban
> zhuan”(Chinese, means comment).
>
>
>  
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