On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Peter Dambier wrote:

Statement of the Official Public-Root Representative

Public-Root resolution problems

I in my capacity as the Official Public-Root Representative and whistle-blower, asked Peter Dambier to publish to NANOG a notice that the Public-Root had fractured. Namely, the root in Ankara operated by Celep Bahadir who is also the UNIDT (www.unidt.com) representative to Turkey and the Middle East.

There was an attempt by UNIDT to start a new root system called the United-Root. Attempts by Ankara to test this root on l.public-root.net at 195.214.191.125 resulted in a fracturing of the public-root network.

The Ankara root injected a number of older records into the DNS resulting in false answers to queries. Ankara was also listing as root servers some DNS that pointed back to ICANN data and did not resolve the Public-Root. This was very unprofessional behavior on behalf of UNIDT resulting in a serious violation of their contractual obligations to the Public-Root.

From Life of Brian, scene 7.

BRIAN: Are you the Judean People's Front? REG: F*** off! BRIAN: What? REG: Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk. FRANCIS: Wankers. BRIAN: Can I... join your group? REG: No. P*** off. BRIAN: I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the Romans as much as anybody. PEOPLE'S FRONT OF JUDEA: Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhh. Shh. Shhhh. REG: Schtum. JUDITH: Are you sure? BRIAN: Oh, dead sure. I hate the Romans already. REG: Listen. If you really wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans. BRIAN: I do! REG: Oh, yeah? How much? BRIAN: A lot! REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f*ing Judean People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah... JUDITH: Splitters. P.F.J.: Splitters... FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters... LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea. P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters... REG: What? LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters. REG: We're the People's Front of Judea! LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front. REG: People's Front! C-huh. FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg? REG: He's over there. P.F.J.: Splitter! GOLIATH: [pant pant pant] Ooh. Ooh. I-- I think I'm about to have a... cardiac arrest. Ooh. Ooh. SPECTATOR: Absolutely dreadful. Hmm. CROWD: [cheering] REG: Yes, brother! Ha ha. What's your name? BRIAN: Brian. Brian Cohen. REG: We may have a little job for you, Brian. Regards, Roy