While Verisign and ICANN's lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank. The Vixie Clique continues to play Whack-a-Mole games with people. It must be nice pulling millions each year out of the non-profit scams while playing all day on lists. Start here - A simple question is asked http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2009/msg01065.html If we're worried about overloading the root servers, why not advocate more caches download the root zone out of band? =========== > because it goes stale, and gets deliberately amended, leading to chaos. there are plans to significantly change the dynamic on/in the root zone. designing a stratagy that presumes a fairly small, static root zone might be short sighted. ===== On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > does iana want the rootops to start pulling the root zone from that server? No. Open source software distributors have figured out how to efficiently mirror files much, much larger than the root zone. The root zone operators should follow their model. ===== Well, I'm told IANA doesn't exist, so it would be difficult for it to want anything. I'm also told the root servers were independent and thus, even if IANA were to exist, the root servers operators would do what they thought best for the communities they believe they serve regardless of what anyone else wants.