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. http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html In comparison with other utilities, DNS performs about average. AT&T's telephone network had two major nationewide failures in the last 20 years. Several electrical grids have failed, including the grid covering the Western States due to a single tall tree. All the root servers have been down once, and there have been a couple of instances of zone files being truncated in the last 20 years. Not perfect, but amazingly robust for a technology operated by humans.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, 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.
Just in case anyone is wondering what Sean is referring to: http://www.icann.org/general/lynn-reform-proposal-24feb02.htm Basically the CEO of ICANN is saying "we give up" or "we can't control absolutely everything with all these pesky requirement regarding representation" and that DNS management needs to be turned over to governments(ala a WIPO-type organization) and their cronies with a self-referencing representational structure(read little to no representation of anyone besides governments and their appointees via a "Nominating comittee") Watching this play out should be fascinating. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
who didn't see this coming: http://www.icann.org/cctlds/au/ "Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago." - Will Rogers Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing Center University of Oregon llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998 On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Patrick wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, 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.
Just in case anyone is wondering what Sean is referring to: http://www.icann.org/general/lynn-reform-proposal-24feb02.htm
Basically the CEO of ICANN is saying "we give up" or "we can't control absolutely everything with all these pesky requirement regarding representation" and that DNS management needs to be turned over to governments(ala a WIPO-type organization) and their cronies with a self-referencing representational structure(read little to no representation of anyone besides governments and their appointees via a "Nominating comittee")
Watching this play out should be fascinating.
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