So to scare the US Government you eneded up putting control
of the root zone in the hands of... the department of e-commerce.
Oops. That about backfired.
Paul, you also thought the alt groups would be the death of usenet
and you were wrong then, too.
At 03:59 PM 10/14/99 -0700, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>Craig, you wrote to me a few months ago and i'm finally getting back to it:
>
>> Now, I consider you to be a strong defender of maintaining a single
>> root. At least, I'm sure you once were. I have missive of yours from way
>> back (from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28 October 1996) that I consider to be as
>> forceful a statement as any about why a coherent DNS is a good idea. I also
>> take it as representative of your fundamental ideology about the how the
>> Internet should be managed, and for what purpose.
>>
>> Please look it over and let us know if you still stand by those views, and
>> please add whatever you might feel is appropriate on this topic.
>
>I absolutely do.
>
>> Subject: Re: bogosity
>> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 13:55:04 -0800
>> From: Paul A Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> [ notes about root-64 being a fun experiment and about how i'm
>> taking all of this way too seriously. ]
>>
>> > >are not in this for your revolution, man, they're in it for the money.
>> >
>> > and what are you in it for?
>>
>> I have a political agenda. That's why I'm in the Internet field at all;
>> I used to be a programmer who held his head high around other programmers.
>> Now I'm writing RFCs and hacking BIND. Why? Because it scares the hell
>> out of the Chinese government. And the Singaporean government. And my
>> own U.S. government. People with ready access to accurate information
>> cannot be oppressed. With no counter influence, the average knuckle dragging
>> hairless ape will try to oppress his or her fellows as a matter of course --
>> this is human nature. I am a counter influence. I don't like the raw form
>> of human nature and I am trying to give individuals the tools they need to
>> avoid information oppression by their fellows.
>>
>> I don't think root-64 is the right way to do that. In fact root-64 looks
>> like it will destabilize the network and make the whole thing work less well,
>> setting the information revolution back a few years or maybe a full cycle.
>> You people arguing about the right of people everywhere to have whatever
>> domain names they want are missing, and I mean entirely missing, the point.
>> These names need to be distinguishing -- slightly meaningful and very unique.
>> There needs to be just one authoritative source of information about any
>> given name, whether it be VIX.COM or "." or MCS.NET. Anything you do to
>> make this less true is like handing machine guns to those knuckle dragging
>> hairless apes I spoke of earlier. Chaos is inimical to freedom. The order
>> you see me fighting for is the status quo, because I believe that the true
>> fight for freedom lies in content rather than naming. Without coherent names
>> we won't be able to locate the content I'm so worried about. Coherency is
>> not free and it's never an accident.
>
>Paul Vixie
>October 1999
>
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