We Should be Overcoming ICANN by Listening to Paul Baran

I agree with 99% of the above, but for the idea that there needs to be no control. Someone has to perform the IANA roll of handing out numbers.

Even looking at the so-called "inclusive roots" there are problems. Either they don't talk to the others (e.g. new.net) or they form an association, which "[seeks] to foster cooperation among TLD holders to advance the cause of building a stable namespace", which, to me, looks a lot like the DNS functions of ICANN.

It's all a bit like phone numbers. If I dial a number, I want to be sure that *whatever* phone I use, I will get through to the person I want. Ditto physical addresses. The "unique address" is an important attribute for *all* addressing systems. This isn't the model that the various non-USG/ICANN/"offical"/"legacy" roots currently offer.

I don't like ICANN, but I don't rate the alternatives much either, at the moment.

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New.net
by Anonymous on Thursday March 21 2002, @01:45AM (#5458)

new.net will never make it. The problem with ICANN is not the problem with regulating the namespace, there needs to be regulation on a technical standpoint and I think there will be an ICANNII to do so, maybe even III. As far as alternates like new.net, they will never work.

The net doesn't need renegades like new.net, it needs regulaton technically from a honest organization who is not into the greed factor, anything the us government puts together will be full of greed and coruption, as much as I hate to admit it!

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Re: New.net by Anonymous Thursday March 21 2002, @02:49AM
- Re: New.net by Anonymous Thursday March 21 2002, @04:10AM

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by Anonymous on Thursday March 21 2002, @06:37AM (#5477)

re: New.Net

You guys have said since the beginning NN s***, etc... and still they get bigger and better daily. Your propably just upset because you believed all this negative reteric that's been spewed on this board. Even Afternic.com has seen the light, sorry cave dwellers.

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Re: We Should be Overcoming ICANN by Listening to by Anonymous Thursday March 21 2002, @03:53PM

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