[132837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Thu Dec 2 07:31:07 2010
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:30:47 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=RaXwosMdwe62nFMuPtkR1PoVAAiYHKF-x=M59@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> ICANN is not the problem. It is itself a problem because over the
> years instead of being a technical coordinator for names and numbers
> became the playground and clearinghouse for IP (Intellectual Property)
> groups, all sorts of color, sizes and shapes of attorneys milking from
> the "DNS ecosystem" and Internet Governance wanna be politiks.
there were two other proposals for the structure of the new entity.
ira's left verisign with a great deal of control over outcomes, a
situation that continues to the present day.
we've no data on how either of the other forms would have functioned,
or would function now.
-e
