Re: Down under NANOG: Telstra problems and root servers

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> On 21 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > So, if a root server was placed in Australia, to whom's network should
> > it be attached.  Would OPTUS and Telstra cooperate and jointly provide
> > connectivity and diversity?  Or is the most connected place in the
> > asia-pacific region still the west coast of the US?


        Depends. Japan & HongKong are pretty well connected and there are a
        number of other reasonably well connected places in SEA.

        And the past rule set seemed to call out for root servers
        to be placed "one hop off a public exchange" and run by a 
        neutral party. Hence "M" is run by the Wide project off NSPIXP-n
        and "K" is run by RIPE off LINX.

        One might expect that -IF- a server was to become available and 
        Oz was to actually acceed to hosting a server, that it would be 
        one hop off an exchange, say WAIX or SYD-BONE and run by... say 
        APNIC.  In the past, Telstra has not been willing to host a root server.

--bill