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Putting Multiple Root Nameserver Issue to Rest

• Comment posted Feb 21, 2006 7:49 am PST — by bill manning
  Randal asks Paul and his colleagues to participate in a discussion. I think this is a rather open ended invitation as i would postulate that Paul has an number of colleagues that touch one or more of his apparently many…

ICANN Gets the Root Zone, Too

• Comment posted Oct 30, 2005 2:08 am PST — by bill manning
  John, i'm not sure why the myth of "A" being special continues to be perpetrated.  The root zone is distributed via a "distribution master" system and has been since early 2000.  --bill

Internet Governance: Countdown to Tunis

• Comment posted Nov 15, 2005 4:09 am PST — by bill manning
  Hum… a former and current ICANN bot members seem to have failed to do their homework, esp regarding the recent history of the root nameserver system.  I can recommend they review the meeting minutes of the ICANN meeting that was…

More Top-Level Domain Wildcards

• Comment posted Aug 21, 2006 2:33 pm PDT — by Bill Manning
  NAN ... the native american nations already are aware, at least some are.  Over a decade ago, (when I had a formal relationship with the IANA) there was some dicussion on how to accomodate requests for non-geopolitical DNS delegations ...…

Identity Theft of Root Name Servers, Reason Unknown

• Comment posted May 20, 2008 5:58 pm PDT — by Bill Manning
  Earl Zmijewski said: Edward Lewis said: Title says: "Identity Theft of Root Name Servers, Reason Unknown".  Then inside the article it says "This posting is about an attack on one such root name server. Actually, 'attack' isn’t really an appropriate…

• Comment posted May 19, 2008 7:57 pm PDT — by Bill Manning
  there was agreement between root operators to collect data on some retired addresses for DITL-2008.  the reasons for collecting that data was to check for correlation on querying nodes. The problems have been identified in NANOG presentations and at WIDE/CAIDA…

Uprooting of the DNS Root

• Comment posted May 25, 2008 6:23 pm PDT — by Bill Manning
  Hi Danny, Your post seems particularly defensive - based on the assumption of mal-intent.  Root Server operators have (todate) operated based on the presumption that we all serve the same data.  Some operators use contractors, some keep everything in-house.  A…

Why DNS is Broken, in Plain English

• Comment posted Nov 14, 2008 10:19 am PST — by Bill Manning
  Glad you keep beating the drum.  In 2004 we ran live demos of this technique at ICANN meetings - the SSAC folks took over in 2005 and early 2006.  Hope there is better traction traction this pass, but its not…