Re:Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm...
by ohazi on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:20AM
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It's silly to talk about this as if we'd throw out dns entirely...
To address the original concern, all we'd have to do is throw out the ICANN root and replace it with a root controlled by a new NOTICANN organization. People were already talking about this when the .org debacle was still playing out.
It might even be healthy for the internet to do this every so often as a warning to those who would dare to try something like this again. They serve at our pleasure.
We're all just agreeing to use their root for convenience. As soon as it stops being convenient, we can literally just decide to give it to someone else.
To address the original concern, all we'd have to do is throw out the ICANN root and replace it with a root controlled by a new NOTICANN organization. People were already talking about this when the .org debacle was still playing out.
It might even be healthy for the internet to do this every so often as a warning to those who would dare to try something like this again. They serve at our pleasure.
We're all just agreeing to use their root for convenience. As soon as it stops being convenient, we can literally just decide to give it to someone else.