Re: [ga] Internet stability

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

Respectfully, I disagree.

ICANN and its predecessor were never related to the defoliation process. Nor
were they ever associated with agricultural controls (or lack thereof) that led
to the mad cow disease problem.

However the 24.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address block allocation that made the @home
business model possible in the first place, etc....
started with IANA. This has everything to do with stability.  If not at the
operational level, at least at the policy level where ICANN claims
jusrisdiction.

You can pay risk mgmt consultants or other experts to tell you but it's just
common sense that the larger the single point of failure, the more you do to
provide either failure prevention or failover security.

Ken Stubbs wrote:

> what a "stretch " here !!
>
> next thing I expect to hear is that ICANN is somehow responsible for the
> past outbreaks of "Mad Cow" disease.
>
> when you get finish with this silly thread then you can next propose a
> resolution blaming ICANN for the "defoliation" of the rain forests in
> southeast Asia and south America
>
> ken stubbs
> (who by the way is coming to you from comcast@home  in orlando florida)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roeland Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
> To: "GA DNSO (E-mail)" <ga@dnso.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:36 PM
> Subject: [ga] Internet stability
>
> > 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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