[44311] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN off the map
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Nov 18 21:58:04 2001
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 21:12:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> Far be it from me to introduce operational content into the mix of the
> usual suspects referring to anyone that doesn't adhere to their worldview
> as ranting or being sociopaths, however there doesn't seem to be any
> announcements for ICANNs address space at the moment as near as I can tell
> from polling the various route servers, rendering them unreachable.
I know of no critical Internet infrastructure service which requires
www.icann.org to be reachable in order to function.
I suspect even cybernothing.org occasionally does maintenance, and it
is unreachable for periods of time. But the Internet survives without
cybernothing.org being reachable.
