At 01:33 PM 7/10/99 -0400, Jon Zittrain wrote: > If instead you see ICANN as having a public trust function... No. We don't. The names of files I use on my computer are none of the publics damn business. It's between me and other people that write to this namespace. Most of the general public doesn't know about this; those that do mostly don't care (appx. < 3000 people out of 200,000,000 have discussed this in 4 years). Those thay only read those files (dns/internet users) don't have a say; they're consumers not producers. Deploy a nameserver and you have a say. Look at a newspaper. The people that write it determine the rules. The people who read it vote with their wallers and readership. Good suggestions from them are never ignored and free market economics is how the general public gets what it wants, not by putting them in the control booth. -- Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.net http://www.mbz.org http://lists.aquaria.net Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada, 70 & 72 280SE, 83 300SD +1 (613) 473-1719
