[ga] Re: anyone notice fallout from this?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.net>]

At 02:57 PM 4/24/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Stephen Griffin wrote:
>
> > In the referenced message, Simon Higgs said:
> > > >ITYM "alternative roots" were the cause of the problem.
> > >
> > > Having written said draft, I can safely say that you are 100% wrong. The
> > > cause of the problem is lack of entry into the legacy root. If there was
> > > access, there would be no alt.roots. No one would care or bother about
> > > alt.roots. End of story. Blaming alt.roots is like blaming the police 
> for
> > > criminals.
> >
> > If there were not multiple roots, would there have been a problem? No.
> > Hence, the multiple roots (which goes against DNS itself) was the
> > issue.
>
>I agree, Simon's claim that "they made us do it by not operating
>on our terms, therefore they're responsible for the deleterious
>effects of our actions" is disingenuous at best.

Nobody made anyone do anything. We were given permission by Jon Postel 
(IANA) to be part of a test root during the Draft Postel era. Yes, that's 
right. We were doing this under IANA's instruction. The test root was 
supposed to close down upon access to the IANA root in October 1996. This 
is all documented if you care to look at the newdom archives. ISOC hijacked 
the newdom process away from IANA and the root became permanently 
fragmented as the test root participants were disenfranchised and had 
nowhere to go. IOD filed their first lawsuit over this.

Get your history straight.


Best Regards,

Simon

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