Re: [ga] DOC extends IANA contract for six months

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Veni Markovski wrote:

> At 09:23 AM 04.4.2006 '?.'  -0700, Danny Younger wrote:
> > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/iana/ianamod0005_03302006.pdf
>
> What do you think of that?

What I'd like to know is what happens to the L-root server when the IANA 
services RFI occurs.

The L-root has historically been part of "the IANA function" and ICANN 
runs it, and accounts for the expenses of running it, under the "IANA" 
heading.

There are lots of folks out there, highly competent folks, who might want 
to take up the L-root server operation.

As it stands, for ICANN to run a root server and to be a policy maker over 
the root level of DNS is an institutional conflict of interest.

		--karl--