"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Absolutely nothing short of bowing to the dictator du jour (IAHC,
> ICANN) will get Vixie "on my side" and I really don't care. He was
> wgonr about useent and he's wrong now. The NTIA has no
> authority. Who cares?
Authority isn't the issue. It's the ability to persuade or convince
people to act in certain ways. ICANN has no authority, right? But
they are able to convince registrars like AOL to adhere to their
policies, they are able to convince people who register domains that
cheaper registrations are better despite whatever process is used to
bring that about ...
> So? rmgroup wars happened in one hierarchy out of many, for a limited
> period of time. Stupid net tricks, like redirecting internic.
This affects people like Carpenter's and Cerf's perceptions of the
stablity of alternate TLDs, which makes ICANN, the NTIA, and the
Internet community at large skeptical of considering them as a
solution to the DNS mess.
> I don't want to convince anybody of anything. I hope poeple will
> educate themselves and draw their own conclusions--
So why badmouth ICANN, the NTIA, the USG, etc? Just present your
opinions and let people draw their own conclusions.
--gregbo
