[45851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS timeline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Higgs)
Mon Feb 25 21:39:51 2002
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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:38:30 -0800
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 01:40 AM 2/25/2002 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Since it appears DNS goofiness is about to return, I put together
>a timeline of significant events that affected DNS service technically
>over the last 20 years.
>
>http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html
Here's some that you missed:
7/31/1996. DNS root fragments (no-one notices). IANA-rep authorizes Draft
Postel TLD applicants to go live with new registr(ies) as proof of concept.
AlterNIC chosen as the "test root" until 10/1/1996 when TLDs were due to go
live in IANA root. Process hi-jacked by ISOC/ITU/WIPO whereby new TLDs
forced to exist outside IANA root.
?/2001. ICANN introduce the first intentionally duplicate TLDs
(.BIZ/.INFO), de-stabilizing the DNS and causing cross-root pollution (now
everyone notices).
?/2001. .US domain moved to .BIZ name servers creating permanent state of
DNS root cross-pollution and creates new .US resolution problems.
And the latest major internet outage:
2/2002. Randy Bush starts sounding rational (Go Randy, go!):
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200202/msg00242.html
Best Regards,
Simon
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