User:Pleun/sdr/JonPostel

The story of Jon Postel

Jon Postel:

Hield de nieuwe nodes bij van Internet die ontstonden, als telefoonboek. Werd uitbesteed aan Network Solutions, want werd te groot. 1998: Hij vertrouwde network solutions niet meer (niet koppelen aan een land, niet dat een land/network solutions geld kon verdienen aan het internet) liet iedereen naar zijn (database) verwijzen. "Hij was voor even de absolute baas op het internet" (hij wist waar alle computers waren, en niemand anders) (2 minuten voordat de overheid aan de lijn hing om controle terug te nemen, Jon werd ontslagen en overleed een paar maanden later) (website koppelen aan juiste server)

1. IS JON DE JESUS?!

Landen hebben gewonnen VS heeft meeste macht op internet: want macht over het "telefoonboek".

Macht: censuur

Internet is onlosmakelijk verbonden met de fysieke wereld door ISP/kabels/servers: daar is overheid aan de macht.

the internet doesnt forget

DNS Root Authority test, U.S. response

Postel in 1994, with map of Internet top-level domains.

On January 28, 1998, Postel, as a test, emailed eight of the twelve operators of Internet's regional root nameservers on his own authority and instructed them to change the root zone server from then SAIC subsidiary Network Solutions (NSI)'s A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET (198.41.0.4) to IANA's DNSROOT.IANA.ORG (198.32.1.98). The operators complied with Postel's instructions, thus dividing control of Internet naming between the non-government operators with IANA and the 4 remaining U.S. Government roots at NASA, DoD, and BRL with NSI. Though usage of the Internet was not interrupted, he soon received orders from senior government officials to undo this change,[19][20][21][22][23][24] which he did.[25] Within a week, the US NTIA issued A proposal to improve technical management of Internet names and addresses, including changes to authority over the Internet DNS root zone,[26] which ultimately, and controversially,[27] increased U.S. control.[28]

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace BY JOHN PERRY BARLOW, 1996

1. 01 Character:

Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) January 28, 1998

Subject:

• The internet

Power:

• Jon Postel
• Network Solutions
• American Government

Aim:

• To map the nodes of the internet.
• To keep the internet from being regulated from single countries / governments.

• Helpers and opposers:
• Network Solutions
• American Government

Profit:

• Freedom of the web
• Control over the web

1. 02 Place:

The internet / virtual space? Psysical space: his office? the specific places of nodes? A node = 1 point. The location of his computer?

SHOW one big big space with cloudphotos at the node points http://art.teleportacia.org/#CenterOfTheUniverse

1. 03 Scene: Two minutes

What

How

Why