[89581] in North American Network Operators' Group
"Reporting to God"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Mar 27 08:23:15 2006
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:52:41 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This is from the ITU newslog ..
> The Economist once said: "if the Net does have a God, he is probably Jon =
Postel."
> David Maher, Senior Vice President, Law and Policy at PIR has published h=
is
> memoirs of the early day attempts to revamp the internet's domain name sy=
stem,
> which he has entitled Reporting to God. Ten years later, it appears that =
decisions
> surrounding the DNS remain as equally controversial as in the mid-1990's.
The Dave Maher memoirs are at
http://chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Maher%20--%20Reporting%20to%20God.ht=
m
Also links to an old, deja vu inducing Economist article, posted on
the IP list - http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people=
/199702/msg00001.html
-srs
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
