Gordon Cook wrote:
> greg -- you may be right.
> Yet if you are right and with an ICANN failure all big business would
> have to do would be to go to Congress for a quick and easy fix, then
> I ask what are Cerf and Patrick afraid of?
Personally, I think that Cerf and Patrick (and others) are trying to
strike some type of compromise between the business imperatives that
are shaping the modern Internet with the cooperative community values
that created the Internet. In a sense ICANN is the last link to
Postel's traditional Internet stewardship.
You have to admit that anything that might happen to cause investors
to doubt the stability of the Internet might have an unpleasant effect
on the stock market. Also, historically, the type of fix Congress has
had to make to ensure the stability of key communications media has
favored business imperatives.
We still have journalists on this list, right? I wonder if any of
them will run your story ...
--gregbo
gds at best.com
