[169797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US to relinquish control of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Sat Mar 15 23:02:00 2014
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:01:13 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E9FF0F76-4438-47EB-B544-396D95D139EA@delong.com>
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Owen DeLong wrote:
>> What's the worst they can do at this point? Make .bobtodd and
>> .bubbagump TLDs? This is different from some of the crap we've got now
>> in what way??
> I’m not too worried about what they could do to TLDs… It would be hard to make a bigger mess than ICANN already has.
>
> On the other hand, I am very concerned about what they would do to the numbers side of things..
>
> Owen
>
And try to horn their way into the standards side of things. Can you
say X.25?
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
