John, On May 19, 2024, at 12:53 PM, John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2024, David Conrad wrote: >>> They provide this to Verisign, the Root Zone Maintainer, who create the >>> root zone and distribute it to the root server operators. >> >> Technically, IANA provides database change requests to Verisign. The actual >> database is maintained by the Root Zone Maintainer (hence the name). > > Good point. > > In any event, I think we agree that none of IANA, ICANN, and/or Verisign > has the authority to remove one of the root operators, no matter how much > someone might dislike their peering policies.
Yes. While technically, there is the capability (they are, after all merely entries in a database that get dumped into a file), the question of authority (ignoring court order) is less clear cut and certainly does not reside in ICANN org, PTI, or Verisign. Regards, -drc
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