Re: [ga] Internet stability

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Roeland,

how do you suppose that ICANN could have any over-site with Excite @ home?

ICANN has no contract with Excite @ home and ICANN has nothing in their
charter about stability of organizations it has no contracts with.

Postings such as these don't help folks participate in the GA, you are
detracting focus from real issues and I encourage you to stay on topic, at
least to those we have that are within the purview of the GA.

thanks,

-rick


On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

> As of midnight, tonight, 4 million users, just in the SF Bay Area, may lose
> their internet connection due to the business failure of Excite @ home.
>
> Lately, we've been talking about what matters. Well, this is what matters to
> the Internet public. This has been seen coming for almost four months. Has
> the ICANN even tried to do anything? Yet, ICANN claims to help stabilize the
> Internet. The territory that ICANN claims, doesn't touch any part of this.
>
> This may be the largest outage in the history of the Internet. Heretofore,
> the NorthPoint failure may have had claim to that honor. However, unlike
> NorthPoint, Excite has mostly residential customers. Ergo, the impact on
> business isn't as great. DSL providers can expect many new customers as a
> result, even if Excite doesn't pull the plug tonight.
>
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