ICANN off the map

Mon Nov 19 10:36:42 UTC 2001

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:15:39PM -0800,
 Patrick Greenwell <patrick at cybernothing.org> wrote 
 a message of 34 lines which said:

> That the people that want to run the Internet are too incompetent to sign
> up with Akamai or utilize some other mechanism to ensure that people can
> reach their site in the event of an outage like any reasonably
> serious business would do is a seperate matter.

ICANN is a customer of Abovenet (apparently, they don't use
multi-homing). Abovenet had connectivity problems that week-end
(Core3.sjc2 rebooting) and that may explain the trouble.

May be ICANN should multi-home to avoid depending on one
provider. But, as someone said, www.icann.org is not critical for the
daily operation of the Internet.