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Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora'sBox of

  • From: Gadi Evron
  • Date: Sun Jun 29 16:44:24 2008

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Jim Popovitch wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Peter Beckman <[email protected]> wrote:
Let the search engines organize the web, not DNS.

OK, (assuming you believe that), why keep dns around. Why not go back to just IP addrs and hosts files for those that need them.

Because the Internet is not governemned, common misbelief aside. It's a mess of capitalism and anarchism. In fact, The Internet is the only functioning anarchu.


I see no reason why search engines won't, they already do, whether we want to admit it or not, for the home user they ARE the Internet.

Gadi.

-Jim P.