Re: Who owns the Root Name Servers

[Karl Denninger <karl at mcs.net>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 02:41:44PM +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> My mind is made up, so don't confuse me with facts...
> 
> Owners of current root servers:
> 
> Servers	Name				Federal money
> 
> A		Internic			Hah!
> B		ISI				Yes
> C		PSI				No
> D		University of Maryland		Yes
> E		NASA				Yes
> F		Internet Software Cons.		No (Paul Vixie)
> G, H		US Defense			Yes
> I		Nordunet			No
> J		NSI				No
> K		Ripe NCC			No
> L		ISI				Yes
> M		WIDE				No
> 
> 6 I'm almost certain have US government funding, 1 would pay almost anything
> to keep them (IMHO), but currently Government related,
> 3 definite no's (the non-US ones), 3 I-don't-knows.
> 
> I believe this argument is fundamentally irrelevant; for any of these
> organizations, keeping a root name server running is pocket change
> compared to the rest of the money they spend on Internet matters.
> 
> But I've heard this argument too often.
> 
>                       Harald A

I corrected your table :-)

However, the last three (K/L/M) are pretty new, and many people's hints
files don't contain them.

The point here isn't that these could be moved (they could).  The point 
is effective market power.  Most of the nameservers out there never are
reconfigured off default hints.

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