RE: [wg-review] dndef, 9

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Phil King [mailto:yofelipe@excite.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:04 PM

> -------snip--------
> 
> And that there's competition at every level except 
> for who owns the root, and there's competition even there, if 
> TPTB get too uppity, because DNS itself is optional, if you 
> consider how fast new protocols can catch fire in the market. 
> -----------snip---------
> This is an item that ICANN appears to be ignoring, to it's 
> detriment.  By
> acting as though it (ICANN) IS the internet, or that all of 
> what is the
> internet is under it's jurisdiction, control, influence, or 
> whatever term
> may be appropriate to the action being contemplated, ICANN 
> could actually
> remove itself from relevancy.  The parts of the network of 
> world servers,
> roots and otherwise, and ISP's could redirect things to leave 
> ICANN and it's
> contracts and such in the net history with the DoJ/Microsoft 
> anti-trust
> decision.

Well, that's not quite as likely as you would think. The guys running the
Big8 ISPs are also the same guys that helped build the system. They are
universally of the unified-root school of theology. This is why all the
efforts to get changes into the DOC root zone. It'd be one hell of a sales
job to get them to use anything other than the root servers that they are
using now. It's nice to talk about, but getting it to happen is yet another
story.
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