23 Feb
2004
23 Feb
'04
2:41 p.m.
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:43:40 CST, John Palmer said:
ICANN is a threat to freedom on the internet. There is no
Very true.
technical reason why there cannot be 1,000's of TLDs out there, except that it foils someone's monopoly stranglehold on one of the few chokepoints of the internet.
Also true. Unfortunately, Paul is still correct in calling anybody who doesn't understand why RFC2826 matters a "whacko". Read it *carefully*, and note that nowhere does it say ICANN has to run the root, only that if there is other than exactly one consistent view of the root, things go pear-shaped quickly.