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Re: Story: "Next battle over Net ramps up worldwide"

2012-01-19 16:13:22

On Jan 19, 2012, at 11:54 35AM, John C Klensin wrote:



--On Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:04 -0500 Noel Chiappa
<jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:

For those who haven't seen it, here:

 Next battle over Net ramps up worldwide
 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html

is an interesting story, one which is also fairly accurate
(often not true of major media stories about the Internet).

Yes, although to describe ICANN's decision making process as a
"technical body" or "mostly devoid of politics" requires living
in a reality different from that understood by anyone who has
followed their policy development processes in recent years.
Maybe this is even ok, but...


To Politico, I think "devoid of politics" means there are no
Republicans or Democrats involved, and the nodes in our protocol
state machines aren't colored red or blue...

                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb





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