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

[Randy Bush]

> 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.

actually not.  although core's bumbling naivete might have lead
folk to that conclusion.

amazingly enough, the dns/root/... issues were getting good support
in dc against the at&t/dec/ibm big corporate alliance.  the
engineers were actually somewhat ahead.  it all collapsed in two
days.

randy