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* Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC)
* Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC):
* OpenNIC Site charter
* OpenNIC Site charter
* AlterNIC (ANIC)(stopped in 1997)
* AlterNIC (ANIC)(stopped in 1997)
==Reasons Alternative Root Projects Have Developed==
==Reasons Alternative Root Projects Have Developed==
===Against Unilateral Control of the Internet===
===Against Governmental/Intergovernmental Control of the Internet===
* ORSN was founded out of concern over the U.S. government's control of ICANN.<ref>[https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1045573 ORSN, Academic.com]</ref>
* ORSN was founded out of concern over the U.S. government's control of ICANN.<ref>[https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1045573 ORSN, Academic.com]</ref>
* ORSC's founders wanted the evolution of the Internet's Domain Name System to be organic, from the bottom up, and free of intergovernmental agencies.<ref>[https://www.open-rsc.org/about/ About, ORSC]</ref>
===Experimentation===
===Experimentation===
* In 2005, [[Paul Vixie]], a member of the [[ISC]] F-Root team and involved in maintaining [[BIND]], a popular open-source implementation of DNS, suggested to [[RSSAC]] that [[ICANN]] create an alternate root zone so that the technical community could add features like [[IDN|internationalized domain names]], [[IPv6]], and [[DNSSEC]] without disrupting older DNS behavior.<ref>[https://circleid.com/posts/20160330_let_me_make_yeti_dns_perfectly_clear Vixie, Let Me Make Yeti-DNS Perfectly Clear, CircleID]</ref>
* In 2005, [[Paul Vixie]], a member of the [[ISC]] F-Root team and involved in maintaining [[BIND]], a popular open-source implementation of DNS, suggested to [[RSSAC]] that [[ICANN]] create an alternate root zone so that the technical community could add features like [[IDN|internationalized domain names]], [[IPv6]], and [[DNSSEC]] without disrupting older DNS behavior.<ref>[https://circleid.com/posts/20160330_let_me_make_yeti_dns_perfectly_clear Vixie, Let Me Make Yeti-DNS Perfectly Clear, CircleID]</ref>