[atlarge-discuss] Severe Inaccuracies in Post from 25 July....

["Bradley D. Thornton" <Bthornton@JointTech.com>]

Hello atlarge-discuss,

  I was going over some older posts that crossed the list while I was
  gone and noticed some seriously erronious information in the post
  below submitted by Jefsey on 25 July 2k2:

  <snip>----------------------
  
  "We should never forget that the ".arpa" namespace was delegated to the
Internet under the agreement of the International community of which the 
FCC was only a partner,  within the ITU/T frame, in agreement and under the 
jurisdiction of at least 50 States (monopolies) from the entire world 
including UK, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Portugal, 
Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Saudi, Tunisia, 
Egypt, Emirates, Greece, Israel, Japan, China (HK, main and Taiwan), 
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, NZ, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, 
Canada, VI, etc. etc. and the USA (through the State Department and the 
FCC). We delegated them the right to connect "com" and "net", to connect 
the ccTLDs, to connect domestic users through the public nets under our FCC 
license. Never to rule the world. And the world never waited for them: the 
X121 international addressing scheme we jointly implemented is only the 
numeric names part of the International namespace that the DNS permits now 
to match (ENUM)."

  </snip>--------------------

  Actually, this is completely incorrect wrt the alleged 'delegation'
  of .ARPA. No international community, nor the FCC had anything to do
  with this 'delegation' that never occured.

  .ARPA is the "original TLD", if you will, that EVERYTHING was under
  prior to and during the switch-over to DNS from the hosts file. Most
  nodes were using UUCP, but what really occured is that we started
  migrating entities to domains such as .MIL and .GOV and of course the
  com/net/org/nato/int/edu's as well so that eventually .ARPA was only
  used for network addressing (reverse lookups).

  After some time when SRI no longer managed the name space it went to
  nic.ddn.mil and then internic.net etc...., and ARIN was formed to
  handle the delegation of IP NET-BLKs for networks along with RIPE
  and APNIC when the 'forward' part of the name space went to Internic
  after the handoff from the capable management of the Defense Data
  Network.

  The ARPAnet (NSFnet/Internet - whatever you want to call it) was
  created and managed by the United States Department of Defense and
  operated in the beginning under contracts and grants provided to a
  mere handful of US Universities (5 actually), then as time
  progressed MERIT and NSF came into the picture prior to the total
  turnover of the network to private interests (with the single
  exception of some parts of the MILnet which are still autonomous and
  government operated to this day (for obvious reasons). The only
  direct dependance the DDN has upon todays Internet is wrt .ARPA for
  reverse lookups and IP Blocks previously delegated to themselves by
  themselves, and then managed by Jon Postel (aka the IANA), and now
  managed by ARIN.

  Let's not pretend that the rest of the world gave the US Military
  permission to operate .ARPA - That simply is not the case. In fact,
  it's the exact opposite. I was there and a part of it. We created it
  out of thin-air, then permitted others to use it, and then the rest
  of the world was (Eventually) given permission to connect to us via
  the NSFnet, BITnet, Larry's CSnet, etc...

  We created .ARPA, we created com/net/org/nato/int/edu and all of the
  ccTLDs too, most of which Jon (aka the IANA) delegated to his
  buddies in trust for sometime down the road when those sovereign
  governments could/might/may be able to take over the management of
  those ccTLDs at some future point. Some have, and some still
  haven't, but that is a completely different matter - where ICANN's
  directors and staff still haven't been imprisoned yet for their
  felonious acts of blackmail, fraud through their various
  disinformation campaigns, and several other impositions they have
  orchestrated going back further than Senator Tom Bliley's calls to
  put them in check for their crimes against humanity.

  See: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/blileyrsp.htm

  
--
  Kindest Regards,

  Bradley D. Thornton, Chief Technology Officer
  The PacificRoot http://www.PacificRoot.com
  mailto:Bradley@PacificRoot.com


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