Re: ICANN off the map

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:15:39PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org> wrote a message of 34 lines which said:

That the people that want to run the Internet are too incompetent to sign up with Akamai or utilize some other mechanism to ensure that people can reach their site in the event of an outage like any reasonably serious business would do is a seperate matter.

ICANN is a customer of Abovenet (apparently, they don't use multi-homing). Abovenet had connectivity problems that week-end (Core3.sjc2 rebooting) and that may explain the trouble. May be ICANN should multi-home to avoid depending on one provider. But, as someone said, www.icann.org is not critical for the daily operation of the Internet.