Since NSI has gone rogue and, many would argue that ICANN has too, I wish he was around to run another "test". Is anybody able to do this again? -Daniel Pelstring ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Crocker" <dave@tribalwise.com> To: <owner-ietf@ietf.org>; "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu> Cc: <lordb@nomad.tallship.net>; <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:25 PM Subject: Re: anyone remember when the root servers were hi-jacked? (fwd) > Michael, > > > Thursday, October 31, 2002, 6:28:08 PM, you wrote: > Michael> http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann-body.htm#B170 > Michael> tells the story as best I could reconstruct it. There are footnotes to > Michael> the documents I could find. > > Notice that Professor Froomkin's "To his detractors" text does not > attempt any balance by offering any other explanation. > > As even Prof. Froomkin notes, things were fragile back then. That > included concern over the possibility that NSI would go rogue. NSI > controlled the master root. The one that all others took their data > from. Jon needed to test the ability to switch to a different master > DNS root, to make sure that there were ways to "route around" this > concern over NSI. > > That's all the test was. Jon was clear about the need for this, weeks > before the test. All anyone needed to do was ask him, rather than > engage in unfounded, inflammatory speculation. > > The other point that folks keep forgetting is that Jon had been > issuing operation directives for the root servers since the inception > of the DNS. How can one "take over" something that one has been > responsible for over its entire existence? > > All of the storm and fury has been from people who have had nothing to > do with the running of the DNS, but instead have focused strictly on > the politics of it. (In fact, it was quite interesting to see that a > year of federal inter-agency task force meetings -- including > Magaziner's participation -- took place with most participants having > almost no understanding of DNS technical basics. We had to arrange a > tutorial for them.) > > d/ > -- > Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> > TribalWise <http://www.tribalwise.com> > t +1.408.246.8253; f +1.408.850.1850 > >