----- Original Message ----- From: "Einar Stefferud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What I think is a real shame is that ICANN might be mistakenly > considered by some people to to be a monument to Jon Postel... >
In my opinion, ICANN has turned out to be exactly what Jon had intended. You were present at the same meeting I was where he disclosed his intention to appoint a Board of people, whom, he described as, "Not the kind of people who would want their names on the Internet.". It is my opinion, that Jon knew that the IPv4 Internet was aging and needed to be handed to someone to be carted away, and buried in a land-fill. ICANN is doing an excellent job of that. It will not be long and people will likely be able to say, "IPv4?...Oh, no one goes there any more....". At best, IPv4 will be a convienant interconnect for private home networks, for legacy intranets, for the embedded WAN-based networks that can not be easily changed, and for third-world countries who traditionally lag behind the U.S. in technology. ICANN will have a ready audience there, but not in the U.S. where companies like New.Net have rallied the major ISPs and added 30 new TLDs to ICANN's 2 which still do not work. Jim Fleming http://www.in-addr.info 3:219 INFO http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
