Richard J. Sexton wrote:
> At 03:47 PM 6/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >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.
>
> You've seriously understimated the complexity of the problem.
>
As has Gordon, if he really believes that NSI can simply walk away from the
Cooperative Agreement. Such an action would be a disaster for all
concerned, and would most assuredly *not* leave NSI in control of either the
root or .com/.net/.org when the smoke cleared.
