12 Aug
2003
12 Aug
'03
12:17 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:28:21AM -0700, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote a message of 14 lines which said:
it takes to replace one part-time computer scientist
Do not paint the past in too bright colors. Besides the obvious (there was much less users of the Internet at this time, and a more closed community, which is easier to manage), Jon Postel made a lot of wrong decisions, too (such as denying ".tf" - French Southern Territories - to a French organization, then granting it without due process to a British one, in direct violation of his own RFC 1591 "For top-level domains that are country codes at least the administrative contact must reside in the country involved.").