A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>
> The liability here is significant and goes well
> beyond Vixie to include any ISP using the RBL service.
> The potential consequential damages are pretty
> dramatic, and the preponderance of the business
> community will go ape if they know one person can
> shut off their customer communications.
This is precisely the sort of danger that the entire Internet will
be running if ICANN (read "CORE and ISOC") controls the root.
The best thing that can happen is that they implement their threat
to black hole NSI. That will force the U.S. Government to see that
the root must be maintained as a government service, beyond the
reach of discriminatory special interests.
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