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Jim Dixon
jdd at vbc.net
Tue Jan 14 14:13:22 CET 1997
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Keith Mitchell wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Peter Lothberg wrote: > > > > Shared resources has to bee keept as neutral as possible, and having > > > for example a root-name-server behind it's own router attached to a well > > > recogized public exchange point seems to be the best avaliable > > > implementation today. > > > > This is in fact exactly the physical arrangement that we have proposed: > > a root name server on its own class C one hop off the LINX. > > Not from a routing policy point of view - will you put the root > server in a seperate AS, or will connectivity be constrained by > your peering/routing policy ? As I think that I have already said, we don't much care which AS it is in, and, no, it would not be constrained by our peering/routing policy. > > To repeat what may not be clear to those > > added to the lengthening CC: list, some time ago, after securing the > > endorsement of the UK ISPA, VBCnet approached IANA on behalf of ISPA > > with an offer to provide and manage a root name server at the LINX. > > Neither VBCnet nor ISPA has the authority to offer "to provide and > manage a root name server at the LINX", without appropriate approval > from a majority of LINX members. They do of course have authority to > offer to provide and manage a root nameserver on their own, or > another of their members' own network. I was quickly restating our offer and did so sloppily. If you look back at what I was restating, it used the phrase "one hop away from the LINX". I believe that everything else that I have written has made the correct distinctions. VBCnet is a member of the LINX. We and other members use its facilities only by mutual agreement. All of us understand that perfectly clearly. > > We sent an engineer to California to discuss this with Paul Vixie, > > who operates one of the root name servers and is responsible for the > > software. We intend to follow Vixie's recommendations on hardware, > > software, and the way in which the root name server is attached to > > the LINX, which is in fact as you have described above. > > Could someone maybe reconcile this with the offer of ready hardware > I've had from Bill Manning ? I'm confused. Sorry, but I know nothing about this. > I think we need a little > more discussion between those who have plans and policy ideas here, > and a rather less attempts at public point-scoring to the widest > possible distribution. Let us make this also perfectly clear: I have added not one name to the CC list. I did correct "chief at ispa.org.uk" to "ispa-com at ispa.org.uk". It is others who have grown and grown the CC list and are, if you are correct, interested in "public point-scoring to the widest possible distibution". -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015
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