Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:04:11-0800
From: postel@ISI.EDU
Subject: Root zone secondary service

Hello.

As the Internet develops there are transitions in the management arrangements. The time has come to take a small step in one of those transitions. At some point on down the road it will be appropriate for the root domain to be edited and published directly by the IANA.

As a small step in this direction we would like to have the secondaries for the root domain pull the root zone (by zone transfer) directly from IANA's own name server.

This is "DNSROOT.IANA.ORG" with address 198.32.1.98.

The data in this root zone will be an exact copy of the root zone currently available on the A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET machine. There is no change being made at this time in the policies or procedures for making changes to the root zone.

This applies to the root zone only. If you provide secomdary service for any other zones, including TLD zones, you should continue to obtain those zones in the way and from the sources you have been.

- --jon.

Jon Postel Internet Assigned Numbers Authority c/o USC - ISI, Suite 1001 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 Talk: +1-310-822-1511 Fax: +1-310-823-6714 EMail: IANA@ISI.EDU