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).
1998年1月28日作为测试，Postel利用自己的权威向十二个网络区域根域名服务器操作者中的八个发送了机密邮件，让他们将根区服务器从那时的SAIC辅助网络解决方案 NSI的 A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET （198.41.0.4）改为 IANA的 DNSROOT.IANA.ORG（198.32.1.98）。