[ga-abuse] Fw: [ga] ICANN will only be doing "Proof-of-Concept" testing...

["Jim Fleming" <jimfleming@prodigy.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "William X Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>
To: "Jim Fleming" <jimfleming@prodigy.net>
Cc: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN will only be doing "Proof-of-Concept" testing...


> Tuesday, Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 9:18:01 AM, Jim Fleming wrote:
>
> > http://www.dot-biz.com/Registry/ProofConcept/index.html
> > "In order to calm people's fears and to encourage experimentation and
> > expansion, the U.S. Department of Commerce helped to create ICANN under
the
> > assumption that ICANN will only be doing "Proof-of-Concept" testing, of
a
> > limited number of new TLDs. The Early Experimentation with .BIZ helped
to
> > show that the Internet would not crash. Some people incorrectly think
that
> > ICANN is some sort of new world government and they will be the leaders
of
> > that government. They do not accept that ICANN will not be needed once
> > Full-Scale Deployment takes place. The new TLD Communities will be quite
> > capable of governing themselves. The Internet Architecture is counter to
the
> > notion of a single point of failure, like ICANN."
>
> Resorting to quoting yourself now, Jim?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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