[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] US/ICANN agreement to be over

[McTim]

On 8/1/06, Peter Dambier <peter at echnaton.serveftp.com> wrote:
All,

For those who aren't familiar with Peter and Karen's sense of humor, a
list of which organisations are responsible for which root nameserver
can find the authoritative list @ http://www.root-servers.org/


> Marouen MRAIHI wrote:
> > The two most important news in this article in french is that
> > http://www.silicon.fr/getarticle.asp?ID=16191 :
> > - The US/ICANN agreement will be over on september 30
> > - Mr John Kneuer from the DoC said that they want to "give up" some of
> > the controls over internet to the private sector or the international
> > community. No more details on that.
> >
> > The writer is wondering about the when/how and if the root servers
> > will be included in this transfer.
>
> As far as I know the rootsevers belong to their operators, not to anybody
> else, not to ICANN.


This is correct, except for "L", which is operated by ICANN.

>
>
> host_name("192.228.79.200","b1.ip4.int").
> host_name("192.228.79.201","b.root-servers.net").
>
> Looks like ITU.

It's Information Sciences Institute.  Do they have a contract with ITU
to run "B"?? If so, that would be news to me.

>
> host_look("198.32.64.12","l.root-servers.net","3324002316").
> host_name("198.32.64.12","AS-20144-has-not-REGISTERED-the-use-of-this-prefix").


ASNs do NOT register the use of prefixes.  Organizations enter data in
registry whois databases.  This prefix is entered in whois and
associated with the ASN in a Routing Registry.

PrefixinUse (http://www.ris.ripe.net/perl-risapp/prefixinuse.html) shows:

198.32.64.0/24 was last announced on 2006-08-01 05:09:15Z. 1 entries
are found for 198.32.64.0/24.
Prefix    	Last announced    	Origin AS
198.32.64.0/24 	2006-08-01 05:09:15Z	20144

whois tells me:

NetRange:   198.32.0.0 - 198.32.255.255
CIDR:       198.32.0.0/16
NetName:    NET-EP-1
NetHandle:  NET-198-32-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-198-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Assignment
NameServer: DOT.EP.NET
NameServer: FLAG.EP.NET
Comment:
RegDate:    1997-06-09
Updated:    2001-12-17


>
> Looks like NSA or another secret service, MI5 ???

ICANN for those not getting the joke.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim