I here what you are saying. My point is that the other infrastructure
pieces create a check and a balance to the entire system. It is an
internet cold war if you will. If Country XYZ forces the UN to require a
member of ICANN to shut down access to a TLD in the US, Country XYZ and
even the UN ha
What you described is why giving the Internet away is a bad idea. Right
now the Internet is stable. If you have countries and businesses
fighting over things, my fear is you and I will suffer.
In it purist form we are all stake holders and each one of us benefit
from what we know as the Inte
For the most part you are talking network. Which is needed, however the
real control comes with root server oversight. I would agree the
network needs to improve. the U.N. will not own our U.S. Internet
network. They may have some oversight which we can refuse at some time
and just add ou
I probably should have been more forthcoming. What I was wondering is
why can't we use the existing Internet infrastructure?
What the U.N. would get is oversight of the root servers. If this fails,
or even goes a little bad there might be an uprising and a new American
Internet could be creat
I don't agree that names are not important. They aren't relative to
computers but our human society and economics literally runs on name
recognition in one way or another. Working for the largest registrant in
the world I can tell you that name recognition is everything in the
internet. I recen
At 12:46 PM 8/30/2016, Steve Litt wrote:
and sleazy little extortionists
(the guy who registered coke.com).
Maybe he was not (I don't know) a 'sleazy little extortionist", but
someone like me, who, as a franchised Culligan Dealer, begged and pleaded
with Culligan, Inc to register their domain na
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:32:52 -0700
Eric Oyen wrote:
> well, so long as you have IP addresses, names are not that important.
> That is the key right there. since ICANN deals mostly with assigned
> names, it should be easy to work around.
>
> now, this may be a tauter simplistic view of the proble
well, so long as you have IP addresses, names are not that important. That is
the key right there. since ICANN deals mostly with assigned names, it should be
easy to work around.
now, this may be a tauter simplistic view of the problem and solution, but
then, it's the simplest solutions that of