> But seriously are there any volunteers there to run root name servers in
> Europe and Asia or are people now expecting to get paid to it through
> ICANN contract.
last time i was offically detailed to care about such things
the volunteer list was over 100. (circa 1998).
can't say who would want to get paid for it.
> We do need root name server for every continent and
> perhaps something like "official mirror" should be considered where
> somebody would run nameserver with complete mirror of all zones that root
> name server would have but it would not be considered "official root" name
> server (but ISPs in its region would know about and us it). Are other
> regions ever considered something like this to ease load on current root
> servers or perhaps as a first step to having root server there?
why on every continent? this way lies madness. look to topology.
and your mirroring proposal (see otha-sans internet-draft)
has some serious flaws wrt data integrity that really
need to be addressed first. that code is slowly coming.
>
> > patience grasshopper. :)
> > pushing "J" to a distinctly different broadcast domain
> > is the first step to pushing that instance elsewhere.
> > pre-ICANN, things moved fairly quickly as compared to
> > post-ICANN.
--bill
