Comment Re:Root servers not decentralized? (Score 1) 522
I belive that the root servers (at least some - F in particular but more would make sense) are using anycast addressing, which makes it possible for there to be many hosts scattered around the globe that all share the same ip address. So, really, there are more than 13 root servers if you're just counting boxes, with (again, at least F) having a presence in more than just one data center.
A quick google brought me to this presentation and it looks good:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/miller.html
I certainly would consider that hosts doing this - being readvertised via BGP from many different networks - would be about as decentrialized as you could get at the network level. Of course, there still is that nagging political and administrative control that still needs work and Verisign's dns manipulations simply underscore how important it is for administrative control to be distributed as well.
A quick google brought me to this presentation and it looks good:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/miller.html
I certainly would consider that hosts doing this - being readvertised via BGP from many different networks - would be about as decentrialized as you could get at the network level. Of course, there still is that nagging political and administrative control that still needs work and Verisign's dns manipulations simply underscore how important it is for administrative control to be distributed as well.
