Re: ICANN off the map

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>]

At 08:15 PM 11/18/2001 -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> But since you bring it up, if they can't run a website, do you want them
> running the Internet?

The only people who claim ICANN has a goal of "running the Internet" are 
people outside of ICANN.  ICANN, itself, has a far more modest and mundane 
goal.

That you would insist that an organization with non-critical hosts incur 
the cost of an Akamai service, or the like, rather than simply enjoy basic 
co-location with an ISP that has a good track record, bespeaks of the 
mission creep people keep trying to impose on ICANN.

d/


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