On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Brian Kelsay wrote:
You are not supposed to use the root servers. As a user, you are supposed to use the 2nd to 4th Tier at least. Same thing goes for top level time servers. You can, but if you do, it makes you an ass.
Feel free to complain when 2-4th tiers are reliable, stop screwing with the data, and support more than the minimal ICANN TLDs.