very interesting suresh.
I read it and it does provide confirmations from my point of
view on
some things that I had only suspected.
The most significant was that IBM and ATT were the corps
that had
gotten their hooks into Magaziner.... This happened between
sept and
december 1996. That action had other IMPORTANT fall out -
namely it
cancelled the very carefully laid plans of the NSF to
declare the
network solutions cooperative agreement done a year early.
had that
happened the feds would have lost whatever control they had.
(I
published an issue on april 1, 1997 saying what the feds had
done to
the NSF. I got email congratulating me on a brilliant april
fools
day issue. Unfortunately it was true.... and not an april
fools day
joke.) Maher is also dead wrong on his insinuations about
the NSF
doing backroom deals with SAIC and the USF gov't on
charging for
domain names. I don't like SAIC any more than Maher but
again I have
documented from the direct sources involved at NSF that they
could
not have done otherwise than what they did.
A Maher does lift the curtain on what his trademark folk did
and that
is useful - confirming a bunch of what a lot of use who were
not in
THOSE rooms suspected. I hear that ken cukier is working on
a
definitive history of this - it needs to be written for
sure. the
consequences of what happened a decade ago have not yet
fully played
out and there was a lot more going on than just trademark.
The most
important thing from my point of view to the kuallumpur
meeting that
maher mentions is that ARIN was announced to the world by
jon
postel. Magaziner had hammered THAT out at a meeting of the
FNC in
washington a couple of weeks earlier.
anyway i have other things to do that rehash old history -
but
thanks for pointing this out. Maher does offer an
interesting
perspective that makes sense (from his point of view at
least.)
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On Mar 27, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> 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 his
>> memoirs of the early day attempts to revamp the
internet's domain
>> name system,
>> 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.htm
>
> Also links to an old, deja vu inducing Economist
article, posted on
> the IP list - http://ww
w.interesting-people.org/archives/
> interesting-people/199702/msg00001.html
>
> -srs
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.listsgmail.com)
>
>
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