[cmNOG] Root Domain Name Server (DNS) is operated by an University

[Mukom Akong T.]

On 23 April 2017 at 23:19, jean-francis AHANDA <jeanfrancis.ahanda at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Why university should go that way ?
>
> learning ?
>
> Start to own part of the internet ?
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> Something like a Y Root server operated by a group of African REN and
> hosted with a minimum of 1 server per country is a bad plan ?
>


Don't get me wrong, I support such a move. But the push has to come from
the universities and it does lots of hard work, budget commitment
especially as ICANN doesn't just give responsibility for root servers just
any how.


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> 2017-04-23 19:26 GMT+01:00 Mukom Akong T. <mukom.tamon at gmail.com>:
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>> On 22 April 2017 at 17:32, jean-francis AHANDA <
>> jeanfrancis.ahanda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>> Is there any Root Domain Name Server (DNS) is operated by an University
>>> in Africa ?
>>>
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>> I doubt it.
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>>> if not why ?
>>>
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>>
>> For a long time, reasons will be infrastructure? ... good multi-homed
>> Internet connectivity using public IPv4 and IPv6, great cooling etc. It's
>> just recently (last 3 - 5 years?) that universities in Africa are begining
>> to get gigabit sized Internet connections.
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>>>
>>> Is this something we can and should push ?
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>>
>> maybe .... might be a good idea for a REN to host it for all the
>> universities on the REN. Why do you think it's important for a university
>> to host it?
>> --
>>
>> Mukom Akong T.
>>
>> LinkedIn:Mukom <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukom>  |  twitter:
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