Werner and all,
I am afraid you are incorrect Werner. The calls into NSI and the
NTIA from DN owners were frantic as many DN's were not resolving
or doing so very slowly at the time. So much so, that the NTIA had
to DIRECT Jon to switch back. He complied reluctantly.
Werner Staub wrote:
> Ken,
>
> > Below is the rewritten paragraph from
> > http://www.media-visions.com/icann-gtld.htm
> >
> > "Evidently showing his displeasure with the situation,
> > Jon Postel at IANA issued an electronic directive that
> > "reoriented" or redirected routing on some root servers.
> > By temporarily disrupting portions of Internet traffic, his
> > statement could not be ignored. The combination of
> > international protests and Postel's action effectively
> > killed the Green Paper. Back to the drawing board."
>
> You still don't have the facts correct. Jon Postel's action did not
> disrupt any Internet traffic at all. It did not and it could not.
> Nor was it an action by Jon Postel alone. It was an action between
> most of the root server operators and only concerned the path
> in which the root zone file is copied to the various root servers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Werner
>
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