d68> there are only 13 such servers.

don't take what you read in the press as gospel.

background:

there are 13 "names" (A thru M) for the roots of the Internet.

when they were originally put in place in 1987 as single physical servers, ten were in USA (A-H,J,L), with three elsewhere: Stockholm (I), Amsterdam (K), and Tokyo (M).

today, the 13 "names" are logical ("anycast") instances are operated by 12 organizations, and housed in 486 physical locations, and each location houses a server farm with multiple "servers" load-balancing the service.

as for India ... what they're saying about 13 just doesn't make sense. the operations are all run by RSSAC and governed by ICANN. you could bomb the original 13 and nobody would care. that's why there are 486 of them.

there is already an instance of I in Chennai (Haddows Road and 2nd Street, run by NetNOD), and an instance of F in Mumbai (Shaivtoaih Road, run by ISC).

there is an instance of K in New Delhi (Bistdari Road, run by RIPE), and in instance of J in Bangalore (Koramangala, run by Verisign) -- along with another two instances of J in Mumbai run by Verisign as well.

if anything, on a global geographic scale, Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean are the underserved locations regarding nameserver distribution (aside: them all being mostly stubbed off of Terremark in Miami is imo just silly).

that might be all a bit off topic, but I wanted to clear things up.

GLAL,

R.