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Dave


"How to get to that solution is the problem. Benevolent dictatorship by Jon
Postel would have gotten us there, but Jon was unwilling to stand up to
pressure from the White House. Ira Magaziner threatened him ("You'll never
work on the Internet again") and he didn't have the spine to tell Ira to
take a flying leap. But Jon's initial design would have expanded to dozens
of TLDs long before ICANN, and increased them by 50 or 100 a year until
demand slacked off. "



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