On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Perhaps you might like to define "cooperating" for us? Has ICANN cooperated with the individuals and organizations that currently run alternate TLDs which predate the existence of ICANN? Or is it rather simply that "might makes right" and they only need to cooperate with "people that matter?"
At some point cooperation has to yield to due process - at least that's the history of society to date. Unless there's a major change to the Internet infrastructure, we need DNS to function reliably, and that requires that the root nameservers behave the way they're supposed to.
I don't see any problem with anything you have said. I think the difficulty comes when I tell you that the root servers I choose to use are operating fine, and you attempt to tell me that I have to use yours.