http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann-body.htm#B170 tells the story as best I could reconstruct it. There are footnotes to the documents I could find. On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 lordb@nomad.tallship.net wrote: > > I'm looking for sources of information on the hi-jacking of the usg root > servers by Postel, Gilmore and Vixie. > > Anyone remember this? It was on Jan 27 1998 when postel convenced a > number of the root operators to switch the primary from a root to f root > (paul vixie). This seems to have been done to embarrase the federal > government - Ira magaziner the presidential science advisor took a birdy > and treatened postel with a visit from the men in black. > > I can understand magaziners disposition at the time. The postel "test" > was a day prior to the Jan 28 release of the presidential green paper and > left magaziner holding the eggs so to speak. > > thanks in advance for any links you may have in your archives. > > > > > -- Please visit http://www.icannwatch.org A. Michael Froomkin | Professor of Law | froomkin@law.tm U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA +1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) | http://www.law.tm -->It's hot here.<--