data request on Sitefinder

Mon Oct 20 16:17:46 UTC 2003

Jeroen - and Howard -
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb at gettcomm.com>

> >
> >*if* Verisign gets it through that the installed base has
> >to bend over because they introduce such a thing it would
> >be a very bad thing for the internet as a whole and it would
> >really mean that the internet is yet another commercial
> >thing controlled by one single entity.

Hmmm - Jeroen,  I dont think this is what this means at all. What it means
is that today there is no one entity controls what is routed or passed
through and over the Internet. In fact the Internet is a fiction. It is
peering agreements and now-adays a number of DNS roots. So then what is it
you are really looking for? A single authority to manage the Internet?

For instance - who controls what ISP's route and don't route at the
client-side level? Becuase for all intents and purposes, the back-end is
just pipe. The answer that you will find is that NO ONE controlls the
Internet today.

>
> Look at the interview with Verisign's CEO at
> http://news.com.com/2008-7347-5092590.html?tag=nefd_gutspro, and I
> think you'll see that your "what it would really mean" is exactly
> Verisign's position.
>