http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann-body.htm#B170
tells the story as best I could reconstruct it. There are footnotes to
the documents I could find.
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I'm looking for sources of information on the hi-jacking of the usg root
> servers by Postel, Gilmore and Vixie.
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> Anyone remember this? It was on Jan 27 1998 when postel convenced a
> number of the root operators to switch the primary from a root to f root
> (paul vixie). This seems to have been done to embarrase the federal
> government - Ira magaziner the presidential science advisor took a birdy
> and treatened postel with a visit from the men in black.
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> I can understand magaziners disposition at the time. The postel "test"
> was a day prior to the Jan 28 release of the presidential green paper and
> left magaziner holding the eggs so to speak.
>
> thanks in advance for any links you may have in your archives.
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