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Trying to remember back that far is quite a task <circa 1977 arpanet>, the greatest authority of the time was Jon Postal since he had the uncanny ability to remember all of the things that made it work, so when he spoke it was like Moses coming down from the
mountain presenting the 10 commandments and everyone agreed it was good,
at that time corporate greed and scheming scamming little weasels were not part of the community, and everything was based on trust because you really were a professional and you could trust the guy on the other end of the connection to be the same as you.
By precedent over the years of use,the root home-servers established their own
authority and everyone agreed it was the most stable approach, and is still the most
stable approach since it does not require and use of resource to point routers
and switches and router servers in any other direction which would impact business
globally and cause a plethora of other problems that I would want to imagine
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