karl, ICANN has responsibility to do what it can to make sure the DNS and ICANN root system work. It does not have to disenfranchise the RIRs and the root servers to do this. vint At 12:02 AM 12/1/2003 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote: >Verisign will wave the flag of bias and ask ICANN to demonstrate why >anycast got such an easy entree. because it did not change the results of queries. sitefinder did. Vint Cerf SVP Technology Strategy MCI 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax vinton.g.cerf@xxxxxxx www.mci.com/cerfsup