On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Michael Sondow wrote:
> Javier Sola wrote (to the discuss list):
>
> > ISOC has been involved in this process from day one, when they started,
> > together with IANA, the Internet Ad Hoc Committee,
>
> What's so pitiful about all this is that ISOC and ICANN will kill the
> Internet as we know it. Why?
I don't think so. ISOC has been losing influence for a long time. Last
I heard they were down to 6,000 members and falling.
ICANN will either be accepted by the Internet community (which requires
adjusting their practices and becoming useful to everyone else) or they
will wither away.
The operations of Internet haven't been disturbed at all by the DNS wars
and all the fuss over ICANN. There is little reason to believe that this
is going to change.
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