Gordon Cook wrote:
> >Gordon Cook wrote:
> >> As ICANN and Commerce continue their arrogant bluster, they might do
well
> >> to remember that NSI can terminate its participation in the cooperative
> >> agreement whenever it chooses.
> >
> >Assuming NSI is willing to both lose its antitrust protection and watch
NTIA
> >enter into a new Cooperative Agreement with ICANN to run the root and
> >.com/.net/.org.
>
> kewl.....
>
> that would be the funniest thing ever.... you think NSI would turn off its
> computers? I don't. With ICANN's lack of money it would be screamingly
> funny to watch them try replicate NSI's imfrastructure, or to award a
> contract to IBM or ATT for them to do it on behalf of ICANN.
>
Once the other root servers stopped pointing to NSI, it wouldn't matter
whether its computers were on or not.
Of course, since the CA doesn't provide NSI with an out clause, we're stuck
with them until the September 2000 contract rebid date they have agreed to.
