such a list exists. % % 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 % > > % > > % > % -- --bill