Guys - I think to keep ICANN out of hot water completely, and keep registrants happy, it would be a public vote via Poll. This way ICANN avoids the ³too close in proximity² problem it has in many eyes regarding Verisign. Similarly - Karl Auerbach (former ICANN) suggests if there was such a failure: [if ICANN were to vanish] "...we would notice that the net had not even stuttered; not one packet would fail to reach its intended destination and DNS registration and renewal would continue as if nothing had happened." "ICANN is the USSR of the internet" - Karl Auerbach speaks out STORY AT WWW.INTERNETCOMMERCE.ORG -Jude On 4/24/07 1:39 AM, "Thomas Roessler" <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote:
On 2007-04-24 12:55:45 +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
I think ICANN (and any escrow organisation named by ICANN) should have a zone copy of the 2nd level TLDs (root being the first level). This would ensure continuity of the DNS in case of failures. The business continuity is the responsability of the registry and/or registrar.
As a side benefit it would allow ICANN to publish stats on the domain names and check that zones are correct (technically that is).
The other critical piece of data are any that let registrants claim the domain names they have registered. (I'm wording things that way quite deliberately, since there are a number of ways to implement that kind of thing.)
Even more than DNS information, that's the data that are being maintained by registrars and that need to survive a failure -- in fact, the DNS might very well point to hosted services that have just gone down together with the registrar in question; being able to write to the DNS is the critical ability that's needed.
Cheers,