Re: [wg-c] The IAB statement on sharing DNS domain registires

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

> An official statement by the Internet Architecture Board, "IAB Technical 
> Comment on the Unique DNS Root" 

And that should remind us all of that time, back in 1956 when after 28
years of assertions by AT&T's finest technical experts and by the Federal
Communications Commission that the Hush-A-Phone would damage the telephone
system, a US Federal Court looked at a Hush-A-Phone and said to the
purported experts - hooey.

That decision, a decision that told the technical experts that they were
making policy choices in the guise of technical statements, opened the
door to shared access to the phone system and thus enabled the creation of
todays Internet.

The IAB statement on DNS has absolutely no bearing on the policy question
of diversity of ownership of operators of DNS in the ICANN franchise root.

		--karl--