[105709] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora'sBox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sun Jun 29 16:44:24 2008
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:42:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
In-Reply-To: <7ff145960806291320x4a768f62x31cf7262ae945b6f@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> wrote:
>> Let the search engines organize the web, not DNS.
>
> OK, (assuming you believe that), why keep dns around. Why not go back
> to just IP addrs and hosts files for those that need them.
Because the Internet is not governemned, common misbelief aside. It's a
mess of capitalism and anarchism. In fact, The Internet is the only
functioning anarchu.
I see no reason why search engines won't, they already do, whether we want
to admit it or not, for the home user they ARE the Internet.
Gadi.
> -Jim P.
>
