Re: ICANN off the map

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> Far be it from me to introduce operational content into the mix of the
> usual suspects referring to anyone that doesn't adhere to their worldview
> as ranting or being sociopaths, however there doesn't seem to be any
> announcements for ICANNs address space at the moment as near as I can tell
> from polling the various route servers, rendering them unreachable.

I know of no critical Internet infrastructure service which requires
www.icann.org to be reachable in order to function.

I suspect even cybernothing.org occasionally does maintenance, and it
is unreachable for periods of time.  But the Internet survives without
cybernothing.org being reachable.