Re: hello dave farber Re: [IFWP] Vint Cerf's and John Patricks House of Cards - the ICANN NSI Cartel and DOC authority

[Richard J. Sexton]

At 11:45 AM 10/2/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg Skinner wrote:
>
>> perfect, offers stability.  If there was some kind of cyber-revolt, most
>> likely the USG would step in and instruct the net to take their DNS from
>> sites that present the same level of coordination they currently enjoy.
>
>No.  How about real competition?  There are 160,000 estimated dns
>administrators who control which root servers are used by their users.
>How much do you think corporate interests would pay these administrators
>for the priviledge of running the global network routing structure?

Well, you *could do* that, but I think at the end of the day it'll
be a trust, not monetary interest that drives this.


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