On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Peter Dambier wrote: > Statement of the Official Public-Root Representative
> Public-Root resolution problems > > I in my capacity as the Official Public-Root Representative and > whistle-blower, asked Peter Dambier to publish to NANOG a notice that the > Public-Root had fractured. Namely, the root in Ankara operated by Celep > Bahadir who is also the UNIDT (www.unidt.com) representative to Turkey and > the Middle East. > > There was an attempt by UNIDT to start a new root system called the > United-Root. Attempts by Ankara to test this root on l.public-root.net at > 195.214.191.125 resulted in a fracturing of the public-root network. > > The Ankara root injected a number of older records into the DNS resulting > in false answers to queries. Ankara was also listing as root servers some > DNS that pointed back to ICANN data and did not resolve the Public-Root. > This was very unprofessional behavior on behalf of UNIDT resulting in a > serious violation of their contractual obligations to the Public-Root. >From Life of Brian, scene 7. BRIAN: Are you the Judean People's Front? REG: F*** off! BRIAN: What? REG: Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. Cawk. FRANCIS: Wankers. BRIAN: Can I... join your group? REG: No. P*** off. BRIAN: I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the Romans as much as anybody. PEOPLE'S FRONT OF JUDEA: Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhh. Shh. Shhhh. REG: Schtum. JUDITH: Are you sure? BRIAN: Oh, dead sure. I hate the Romans already. REG: Listen. If you really wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans. BRIAN: I do! REG: Oh, yeah? How much? BRIAN: A lot! REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f*ing Judean People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah... JUDITH: Splitters. P.F.J.: Splitters... FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters... LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea. P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters... REG: What? LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters. REG: We're the People's Front of Judea! LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front. REG: People's Front! C-huh. FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg? REG: He's over there. P.F.J.: Splitter! GOLIATH: [pant pant pant] Ooh. Ooh. I-- I think I'm about to have a... cardiac arrest. Ooh. Ooh. SPECTATOR: Absolutely dreadful. Hmm. CROWD: [cheering] REG: Yes, brother! Ha ha. What's your name? BRIAN: Brian. Brian Cohen. REG: We may have a little job for you, Brian. Regards, Roy