Re: [ga] Re: "Alternative roots": a big technical failure

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane, Jefsey and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:20:41AM +0100,
>  J-F C. (Jefsey)  Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>  a message of 165 lines which said:
>
> > I went to open roots and wrote Best Practices with Pascal Bernhard
> > for Root Administrators and TLD Mangers,

>
> I would be glad to read such a document if it really exists. RFC 2870
> is too short, and a bit outdated, I believe. But it is not yet
> completely implemented by ICANN/USG.

 I was also unable to locate the document to which Jefsey refers.
However he was in 2001 a nominee for the ICANN board
see: http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/icann-nominations/Arc01/msg00001.html

  As for RFC 2870, indeed it is not yet implemented by ICANN.
However given ICANN's lack of adequate performance, yet
frequent insistence of adherence to IETF RFC's this is not
at all surprising at all...

>
>
> > Thank you not to be afraid to tell you use OSRC at home.  I suggest
> > you try ORSN too. Strictly ICANN like root for Europe.
>
> Following your advice, I just switched to ORSN
> <URL:http://www.orsn.net/>.
>
> At first, I noticed two *mandatory* things that were missing in ORSC
> but present in ORSN:
>
> 1) In the hint file, a description of the owners of the various name servers,
> as well as their contact email (I was unable to reach the real responsible of
> k.root-servers.orsc, it is not written anywhere, I relied on ARIN).

  ORSC seems to have been lax of late in getting things updated
as ORSC ML posts will attest to should you care to check the
most recent archives..

>
>
> 2) A public monitoring system (something that is also missing in ICANN/USG,
> BTW).

  Yes.  And also as has been ICANN's checkered and somewhat
disparaging history, they are as usual behind the curve as was the
IANA durring John's era...

Regards,
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