Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Root DNS ceded to ICANN in 2015. Ready? Date: 17 Mar 2014 16:10:05 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net laCvZPVRNhoTmjhUvcZZagm71Zc5sQS7IrfpYyG7FHSmzTYQkx Cancel-Lock: sha1:rnvhyUUsXnq+3cOUCXNGghCzOCA= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1732 On 2014-03-17, Randy Westlund wrote: [25 lines snipped] > The idea sounds okay in theory, but after ICANN's circus act with > new gTLDs, I don't trust them to administer *anything* > internet-related. I know the US government isn't a good steward for > the internet, but I've yet to see anyone who isn't much much > scarier. Frankly, I don't want countries like China and Pakistan to > have any input at all. > > Who else thinks the big companies mentioned are excited because they > think they can get more control over it? To paraphrase Churchill, ICANN was the worst way of administering the Internet, apart from all the others. Although it kind-of makes sense for the ITU to do it. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 3rd day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 A non-empty Hausdorff topological space is a continuous image of the unit interval if and only if it is a compact, connected, locally connected second-countable space.