Simon, Is your revisionist history part of a stand-up routine? The DNS root fragmented in 1996? Bill Manning was an "IANA-rep"? Alternic chosen as the test root? Chuckle. Thanks for the amusement. Rgds, -drc On 2/25/02 6:38 PM, "Simon Higgs" <simon@higgs.com> wrote:
At 01:40 AM 2/25/2002 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
Since it appears DNS goofiness is about to return, I put together a timeline of significant events that affected DNS service technically over the last 20 years.
Here's some that you missed:
7/31/1996. DNS root fragments (no-one notices). IANA-rep authorizes Draft Postel TLD applicants to go live with new registr(ies) as proof of concept. AlterNIC chosen as the "test root" until 10/1/1996 when TLDs were due to go live in IANA root. Process hi-jacked by ISOC/ITU/WIPO whereby new TLDs forced to exist outside IANA root.
?/2001. ICANN introduce the first intentionally duplicate TLDs (.BIZ/.INFO), de-stabilizing the DNS and causing cross-root pollution (now everyone notices).
?/2001. .US domain moved to .BIZ name servers creating permanent state of DNS root cross-pollution and creates new .US resolution problems.
And the latest major internet outage:
2/2002. Randy Bush starts sounding rational (Go Randy, go!): http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200202/msg0024.... html
Best Regards,
Simon
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