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

[Joe Touch]

Craig Simon wrote:
...
> Craig Partridge and Joe Touch add plausible and useful clarifications as
> to what the technical aspect of the test was about -- the power to
> re-site the root and the relative ease of doing so. I would like to know
> if the conversation that Joe Touch recounted happened before or after
> the incident.

After. Jon was never coy, at least in my interaction with him, so I have 
no reason to doubt his direct assertion on the matter. I won't comment 
on his internal motivations; he was not fond of words spoken on his 
behalf  when he was here, and I'll continue to respect that.

> In an interview with me in August 2000, Bill Manning described some
> test-like activities that occurred during the redirection incident, but
> he didn't actually mention the point about testing the ease of re-siting
> the root, nor the rationale for the timing. I do recall that when I saw
> Bill at the IETF meeting around March/April 1998, he was wearing a
> T-Shirt with a picture of the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz, with
> the caption, "If I only had the noive." Choose your own inference.

FWIW, Bill wears many interesting shirts. Anyone who takes them at face 
value is in for a bit of a ride, IMO.

;-)

Joe