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, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>