Re: [ga] Becky Burr freezes root servers

["J. Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Dan Birchall wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 11:14:54PM -0400, J. Baptista wrote:
> > 
> > I has come to my attention that Becky Burr of the Department of Commerce 
> > has frozen the root and even NSI isn't allowed to add new namesevres for
> > com.
> 
> I'm a little unclear on whether Joe means nobody can add new _root_
> nameservers for .com, or nobody can add new nameservers (ie FOO-HST)
> _within_ .com.  Of course, either way it doesn't necessarily sound
> like a splendid situation.

I just called Burr up and left her some voice mail.  Called her boss
Irving too.  I'm very curious - if this in fact has happened, what was the
cause and reasons behind it.

Cheers
Joe Baptista

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