such a list exists.
%
% Does anyone know of such a list?
%
% Cheers
% Joe Baptista
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% On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Daniel Pelstring wrote:
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% > 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(_at_)tribalwise(_dot_)com>
% > To: <owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>; "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of
Law"
% > <froomkin(_at_)law(_dot_)miami(_dot_)edu>
% > Cc: <lordb(_at_)nomad(_dot_)tallship(_dot_)net>; <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)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(_at_)tribalwise(_dot_)com>
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% > >
% > >
% >
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