RE: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:

> Never work.  How do you ask the Internet Community, Patrick?

I'd ask that question of the ICANN board. They claim to be operating under
the auspices of "community consensus...."

> How do you define the Internet Community?  And besides, picking the
> strings independent of a real proposal for how it will be run is mostly
> useless. 

Bull. That's like saying you can't run a phone company without a proposal
on how it will be run. Domain names are very much akin to a utility. 

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