This is a great book, BTW. All network engineers should read
it.
Just happen to have it handy. Both of the earlier posters were
correct. The book cites both Bob Taylor's priority on R&E
networks and Baran's goal of a resilient communications system
that could survive a nuclear holocaust. *Inspiration* - instead
of measuring nuclear weapon destructive power in megatons, it
would perhaps be useful to express it in megabackhoes.
I suspect
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,21100,00.html
http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/08/05/DysonEntersPoliticalSpatOverDomain.shtml
Dyson reiterated that point in her letter to Bliley and said that the ICANN
board expects that Sims will communicate on its behalf with government agencies
and lawmakers as the "ordinary course" of doing his job.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,5722,00.html
ICANN Downplays Talks With DoJ
http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/07/30/ICANNDownplaysInappropriateTalksWithDOJ.shtml
ICANN Downplays "Inappropriate" Talks with DOJ
http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00065.html
"You have really gone off the deep end."
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-229252.html
DOJ, ICANN accused of collusion
Vote with your DNS:
zone "." {
type slave;
file "root.bak";
masters{ 199.166.24.12;
216.13.126.116;
199.166.28.10;
204.80.125.130;
195.117.6.25;
199.166.31.3;
199.166.31.250;
199.5.157.128;
204.57.55.100;
213.196.2.97;
199.166.24.1; };
};
Best Regards,
Simon