Stephane and all, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:35:06PM +0100, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote a message of 34 lines which said:
what's special about ARIN's or ICANN's network, as opposed to the network that runs google.com?
ARIN (or ICANN or AFNIC or DENIC) manage public resources.
This is *Special* to be sure, and ICANN in particular have not managed their RIR's very well, if at all. Hence better and much more direct oversight by DOC/NTIA is needed but not been forthcoming.
I'd say Google is much more critical to the average network user...
May be but it is a private and for-profit company. It does not manage a public resource.
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