[dns-wg] Re: ORSN-SERVERS.NET

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:04:33PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:28:57AM +0200,
>  Roy Arends <roy at dnss.ec> wrote 
> > Please read RFC 2826
> 
> Please read about ORSN
> (http://european.nl.orsn.net/faq.php#opmode). ORSN is *not* an
> alternative root.

if I read it correctly, ORSN *is* an alternative root,
e.g. they say "However, removed TLDs won't be considered ..."
in the FAQ you mentioned above, so even in the so-called "ICANN-based mode"
there might be a different content of the root zone compared
to the official root zone.

This might get much worse in the "independent mode" since ORSN is an independent
organization with no clear transparency regarding decisions and control
of the root zone's content. Besides the technical reason above this is
another administrative reason why I would call ORSN an alternative root.

Don't get me wrong ...
I don't say ICANN's decisions are transparent all or even most of the time.
Some independence of Europe regarding DNS and other critical Internet
infrastructure is a creditable goal, but I think it needs a stronger basis
and a broader support in the ISP community than ORSN seems to have currently.

						-- Steffen Reithermann