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... Best Regards, Simon -- ###