[dns-operations] When TLDs have apex A records

[Paul Vixie]

> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:44:19 +0200
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
> 
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:42:52AM +0900,
>  Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote 
>  a message of 37 lines which said:
> 
> > who bears costs:
> >   o root operators have more data to sign, serve, ...
> 
> Then, the obvious solutions is to make the root name servers a service
> of ICANN, and paid by it. That way, they would no longer complain and
> we would have an alignment of costs and benefits. Do you think it
> would be a good idea?

the rootops aren't complaining.  and speaking for ISC f-root, we prefer our
independent sponsorship model vs. any single-party control over our funding
or footprint.  root ops should be "of, by, and for the internet community".

see <http://www.root-servers.org/> for more information on who the rootops
are and where the servers are.  any organization who can consider sponsoring
one or more root name servers should contact any root server operator to
find out what's possible.