[172551] in North American Network Operators' Group
short, two part question ICANN Vs. The World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stovetop 202)
Mon Jun 23 15:43:57 2014
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 16:45:28 -0700
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Topic: ICANN Vs. The World.=0A=0AThe question at hand is.. Do countries/bus=
inesses have to affiliate or utilize any of those services provided by ICAN=
N other than the assignment of an IP address? =A0And can you get away with =
LAN/CAN/MAN stand-alone systems [instead of utilizing DNS-via-ICANN]??=0AEx=
ample:=A0=0AIs it legal to cut off those DNS systems and loop in backwards?=
=A0(instead of bidirectional). =A0** =A0I don't want my city/schools/other=
systems hooked into the World Wide Web. // someone let me know when you ge=
t a chance.=0A
