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Re:Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root by anticristi on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:50PM (#27109446)
Devil's advocate here. The DNS root servers worked, but don't quite feel up to speed with regulations. AFAIU, the root servers still receive FQDN and IP, which is not GDPR-friendly and technically unnecessary.

Also, I'm not sure what happens if a crazy US president decided to disrupt .eu.

While regulating root DNS servers might be undesirable now, it sure feels like the right moment to start the conversation.

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Re:Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root by khuey on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:58PM (#27109517)
The US government is no longer in control of the root servers, and even if it were, I doubt .eu would be at the top of the target list.
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Re:Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root by _-david-_ on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:26PM (#27109789)
> AFAIU, the root servers still receive FQDN

This part is solved with qname minimisation.

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Re:Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root by Denvercoder9 on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:40PM (#27109970)
> AFAIU, the root servers still receive FQDN and IP, which is not GDPR-friendly and technically unnecessary.

This is only a problem for a tiny fraction of queries. The records served by the root servers can be cached (e.g. .com has a TTL of 2 days), so most queries don't even hit the root servers. It's a much bigger problem for the registry nameservers.

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