US to relinquish control of Internet

[johnl at iecc.com (John R. Levine)]

> What's the worst they can do at this point? Make .bobtodd and
> .bubbagump TLDs? This is different from some of the crap we've got now
> in what way??

Well, ICANN has come pretty close to delegating .HOME and .CORP to domain 
speculators, despite the vast amount of informal use which would get badly 
screwed up.

Like I said, I look forward to the ITU equitably delegating domain names 
and IP addresses.  Sorry the US has enough names already, the next ten 
million go to underserved areas.  And since we know that phone numbers 
work great with per-country prefixes, we're going to improve the DNS so 
domain names always start with the country code.

R's,
John