RE: [IFWP] RE: Lou Gerstner on what IBM wants from ICANN

[Pete Farmer]

A.M. Rutkowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>It's also important to look at alternatives to the single world government
approach that's represented by ICANN.  The Internet arose and was successful
because of distributed administrative models, not centralized ones.

>Even in other Internet legal areas, the emphasis is on mechanisms of
accommodating multiple administrative
approaches rather than proceeding with a centralized one.

Maybe I'm dense, but how do you maintain a system where www.strategies-u.com
maps to one and only one host unless you have a single centralized
authority/clearinghouse?

Pete
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