>You keep bringing up the creation of alternative hierarchies in usenet
>as an example of how the Internet has figured out a problem. I don't
>deny this, however, the point I keep returning to is that you can't
>compare the two because usenet is not critical infrastructure to
>Internet operation as DNS is. This is not to say that usenet is not
>important. However, it is nowhere near as necessary for reliable
>Internet operation as DNS is.
Do you have a closer parallel to the expansion of dns names ?
>I also note that a lot of the key figures in IETF and ISOC who support
>ICANN never had much to do with usenet news. Thus it is not very
>likely that they have much confidence in that mode of
>self-governance.
Vixie was, and hw was the only member of the group facetiously
knoen as the "backbone cabal" that thought alt would be the death
of usenet.
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