On Jan 19, 2012, at 11:54 35AM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>
> --On Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:04 -0500 Noel Chiappa
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> For those who haven't seen it, here:
>>
>> Next battle over Net ramps up worldwide
>> http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html
>>
>> is an interesting story, one which is also fairly accurate
>> (often not true of major media stories about the Internet).
>
> Yes, although to describe ICANN's decision making process as a
> "technical body" or "mostly devoid of politics" requires living
> in a reality different from that understood by anyone who has
> followed their policy development processes in recent years.
> Maybe this is even ok, but...
To Politico, I think "devoid of politics" means there are no
Republicans or Democrats involved, and the nodes in our protocol
state machines aren't colored red or blue...
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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