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Doug Barton wrote:

> The root zone servers are not authoritative for any other zones (other
> than the root zone itself, of course.)

Sorry, I should have been more careful in my terminology here. The roots are
not authoritative for any other TLDs besides ARPA and MIL. They are
authoritative for in-addr.arpa, which has the same legacy issue as ARPA
itself (it needs to be moved).

hth,

Doug

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