RE: [ga] Internet stability

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

The point is, that I wondered how much ICANN activity has relevence to real
internet users, relative to immediate connectivity stability issues? There
are a lot of Excite users that, I am sure, do not have ICANN at the top of
their minds tonight. If ICANN wants to get their attention then it is
something to think about.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Rick H Wesson [mailto:wessorh@ar.com]
|> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:03 PM
|> To: Roeland Meyer
|> Cc: GA DNSO (E-mail)
|> Subject: Re: [ga] Internet stability
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 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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