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

[William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>]

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?

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