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"Reporting to God"

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Mon Mar 27 08:24:20 2006
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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://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199702/msg00001.html

-srs

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Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])