The root is an open issue, but I suspect that ICANN will have a very
difficult time getting NSI to give up com/net/org, and should they just
ignore NSI and start to run it themselves, I also suspect that the legal
battle would dwarf anything even imagined to date. Quite honestly, I
don't know where ICANN would get the money needed to fight such
a battle.
But then, I'm not a lawyer and am just guessing.
--
Christopher Ambler
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----- Original Message -----
From: John B. Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [IFWP] Re: Esther Dyson Sells Out Internet Community
>
> A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> > At 03:48 PM 6/4/99 , you wrote:
> > >enter into a new Cooperative Agreement with ICANN to run the root and
> > >.com/.net/.org.
> >
> > Yeah, right. Dyson's going to run it off her
> > little laptop. :-) I'm sure customers will
> > flock to that one.
> >
>
> No, ICANN would just contract it out to someone else a year or so earlier
> than planned.
>
>
