[45883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS timeline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Feb 27 00:17:09 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:09:06 -0800
From: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
To: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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Simon,
Is your revisionist history part of a stand-up routine? The DNS root
fragmented in 1996? Bill Manning was an "IANA-rep"? Alternic chosen as the
test root? Chuckle.
Thanks for the amusement.
Rgds,
-drc
On 2/25/02 6:38 PM, "Simon Higgs" <simon@higgs.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> ###
>
