[ih] Re: anyone remember when the root servers were hi-jacked? (fwd)

[Dave Crocker]

Randy,

Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 2:55:09 PM, you wrote:
Randy> as such it was very 'successful'.  it proved to the folk in dc and the
Randy> big companies that the engineers could not be trusted.  the result was
Randy> that the power to site root servers and to control their content now
Randy> sits in washington dc and marinara del roi.

Those folk were already completely dismissive about technies. Openly,
regularly, and insultingly.

It demonstrated that those folk in dc were clueless about operations. Rather
than learn from that they felt the need to play more power games. Given
their aggressive ignorance of the pragmatics, something like this was
inevitable.

d/
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