Root server cannot be a forwarder?

[April]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:01:38PM -0700,
>  yinzhang57 at yahoo.com <yinzhang57 at yahoo.com> wrote
>  a message of 66 lines which said:
>
> > A Windows root server
>
> I don't think there is even one root name server which runs Microsoft
> Windows. Are you sure that you really mean "root server" and not
> "authoritative server"?
>
> (And, in the latter case, yes, a BIND authoritative name server can do
> recursion as well and so can be a forwarder.)

I'm not talking about the Roots for the Internet, but a namespace in
general.