Re: [wg-review] dndef, 9

[Eric Dierker <Eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

Roeland Meyer wrote:

> > 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.

Or new chapter.  "The only unacceptable solution is the status quo." See
Babylon or Roma w/ceaser.

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