A fair amount of the hardware is owned by the US, and the part that is not is greatly funded by the US.
I guess the parts that that are not funded by the US could take away the access, but who would that hurt the most? >From my count 10 of the 13 servers are with US based organizations with three of them being run by the federal government and one operated by a state government. With two based in Europe and one in Japan. I guess those three could cut US access with little legal ramification. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:07 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: UN wants to internationalize the Intrawebs > > Nick McClure wrote: > > The Root Servers > > The physical servers (the hardware) are not owned by the US. They are > owned by the hosting organisations. A significant part of the hosting > organizations does not fall under US jurisdiction: http://www.root- > servers.org/ > The only thing that falls exclusively under US control is the system that > is used to update the zone files on said servers. And if said hosting > organisations choose to disable access to said servers to update the zone > files US control is gone. Everyone would prefer not to have to do that > because it would effectively freeze important domains like .com in their > current condition and create a DNS fork where the result of a DNS query > depends on the root server you happen to use. > > From a technical standpoint, US control over the root is greatly > exaggerated. > > Jochem > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:165273 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
