Does anyone know of such a list? Cheers Joe Baptista -- Planet Communications & Computing Facility a division of The dot.GOD Registry, Limited On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Daniel Pelstring wrote: > 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 > > > > >