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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:43:40 CST, John Palmer said: > ICANN is a threat to freedom on the internet. There is no Very true. > technical reason why there cannot be 1,000's of TLDs > out there, except that it foils someone's monopoly > stranglehold on one of the few chokepoints of the internet. Also true. Unfortunately, Paul is still correct in calling anybody who doesn't understand why RFC2826 matters a "whacko". Read it *carefully*, and note that nowhere does it say ICANN has to run the root, only that if there is other than exactly one consistent view of the root, things go pear-shaped quickly. Attachment:
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