I heard somewhere that eartklink and juno were supporting one of the other
TLD companies, but don't know which
Seth
On Sunday 15 July 2001 10:26 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:54:55PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
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> > I did a little more reading on this whole issue after my original post.
> > They simply propose to become what ICANN should be (according to them):
> > truly democratic. One person one vote. Their thought is to have various
> > non-profit entities keep control over their system, and a vote of the
> > majority can overturn any policy or create new ones....I guess I'm also
> > looking at this from their democratic perspective (good propaganda on
> > their part, eh?) as they both rail against large (semi-)non-accountable
> > organizations, and yet allow provision for such entities to exist anyway.
> >
> > On the other hand, perhaps this is just an attempt to get The Powers That
> > Be to adopt some democratic reforms when it comes to TLD's...They are
> > taking an extreme position simply to cause some movement in their
> > direction (such as Huey Long during the depression: he caused FDR to make
> > his social programs more generous because Long was proposing even more
> > generous packages himself if he got elected president).
>
> I suspect this is the reason. Naturally these guys are going to
> propagandize their viewpoint. OTOH, I don't know who makes up ICANN,
> what accountability they have, etc. I presume since they took this task
> away from Network Solutions/InterNIC, that they vested the power in an
> organization that the world would see as more neutral. Particularly
> since the claim at the time was that InterNIC primarily served the
> interests of the United States. But then again, I could be naive on this
> point.
>
> > BTW, since the internet is global in nature, and the way that current
> > IPv4 addresses are allocated (the majority being available only in the
> > US, and nowhere else), how long will it be before IPv6 hits the streets
> > in any forceful way?
>
> I would have expected it long ago. And with IP masquerading, there is
> some relief of pressure. If I had to guess, I'd say 5 - 10 years before
> we see real adoption of IPv6. And if you believe this, I've got some
> stock picks for you. ;-}
>
> Paul
-- Seth Seth@hollen.orgI live in my own little world, but it's ok... they know me here.
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