Re: who runs the root, Cogent-TATA peering dispute?

["John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

On Sun, 19 May 2024, David Conrad wrote:
> > They provide this to Verisign, the Root Zone Maintainer, who create the
> > root zone and distribute it to the root server operators.
>
> Technically, IANA provides database change requests to Verisign. The actual database is maintained by the Root Zone 
> Maintainer (hence the name).

Good point.

In any event, I think we agree that none of IANA, ICANN, and/or Verisign 
has the authority to remove one of the root operators, no matter how much 
someone might dislike their peering policies.

R's,
John

PS: Perhaps the GWG will eventually come up with a way to do that but I'm 
not holding my breath. It's been six years since RSSAC 037 and 038.  I 
can't blame them for moving very slowly since it would be all too easy to 
come up with something worse than the current non-system