[dns-operations] The (very) uneven distribution of DNS root servers on the Internet

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

>> > BTW "fair and equitable" is one of those unfortunate phrases that gets  
>> > Internet governance types very excited, not always in a good way: eg  
>> > "fair and equitable" distribution of IP addresses.

the alternative allocation model is the market price model, e.g.,
meuller and others, mostly american, influenced by the chicago and/or
"law and economics" schools (econ and law, respectively).

as rife with holes and patches as the internet governence position
papers are, it is slightly endearing that a policy other than highest
capitalization is considered as an alternative to earliest adoption.

> Yes, and that's unfortunate, because the piece reads as if those words
> are used in their common sense not their "governance" sense.

i don't think the subject matter is unlearnable, or the target
audience is unteachable.

fwiw, i only interact with ig event attendees at icann meetings, which
are defined by partitioning of issues into dns-leaf-level "security
and stability" by ip/leo interest advocates, dns-root-and-branch-level
"s&s" by ssac/others, address issues by nro/aso interest advocates,
and vgrs-and-its-wannabes chasing the $6 cow.

there is a lot of selective blindness, and it is hardly limited to the
ig event attendees that i've come to know over the years.

-e

p.s. an equity paper could have focused on the b/w cost of rapid
update feature of a zone editor to all zone publishers, where some
zone publishers are connected over links considered by the pilc wg.