[ih] Jon Postel's papers

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 20-Jul-25 05:40, touch--- via Internet-history wrote:

> Others reported this as a “power play” of his asserting authority, but my recollection is that it was intended to prove that shifting the root servers was both simple and a matter of trust - if you trusted the person who told you to move it, it could move easily.

Exactly what I remember. And Jon, while he had firm opinions and took his responsibility as IANA very seriously, was not the man to make power plays.  He cared about the Internet, not about his position or reputation.

At the end, Jon was trying to make ICANN's bylaws as good as they could be. The very last email I saw from Jon, dated 28 September 1998, was titled "New IANA Bylaws -- the fifth version". He died two weeks later.

    Brian