"Reporting to God - Dave Maher on the IAHC and Jon Postel"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
Date: March 27, 2006 8:44:54 AM EST
To: declan () well com
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: "Reporting to God - Dave Maher on the IAHC and Jon Postel"

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  
IP in '97 -
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199702/ 
msg00001.html

regards
-srs


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