<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Adam,<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>On Oct 11, 2019, at 12:36 AM, Adam Vallee <<a href="mailto:adam.vallee@gmail.com" class="">adam.vallee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:40 AM David Conrad <<a href="mailto:drc@virtualized.org" class="">drc@virtualized.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Adam,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d recommend reading "A Proposed Governance Model for the DNS Root Server System” (<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-037-15jun18-en.pdf" target="_blank" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-037-15jun18-en.pdf</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">-drc</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class="">I think you are only helping my point, in that it says the following in that document:<br class="">...<br class="">7.</span><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class="">RSOs must operate with integrity and an ethos demonstrating a commitment to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class="">common good of the Internet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class="">...</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""></span><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""></span><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class="">11.</span><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class="">RSOs must be neutral and impartial.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" class="">Cogent is not activating in a commitment to the common good of the internet, and they are not neutral nor impartial.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I have no comment on Cogent’s behavior in this context, however I think you missed my point. </div><br class=""></div><div>RSSAC 37 is a proposal. It has not been implemented as yet, so it’s a bit hard to apply it in this particular case. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>More directly, today, there are no agreements that dictate what root server operators must do.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><br class=""><style class="">ul[class*='mb-extra__public-links'], ul[class*='mb-note__public-links'], ul[class*='mb-task__public-links'] { display: none !important; }</style></body></html>