US to relinquish control of Internet

Sun Mar 16 03:01:13 UTC 2014

Owen DeLong wrote:
>> What's the worst they can do at this point? Make .bobtodd and
>> .bubbagump TLDs? This is different from some of the crap we've got now
>> in what way??
> I’m not too worried about what they could do to TLDs… It would be hard to make a bigger mess than ICANN already has.
>
> On the other hand, I am very concerned about what they would do to the numbers side of things..
>
> Owen
>
And try to horn their way into the standards side of things.  Can you 
say X.25?

Miles Fidelman

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