On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Joe Baptista <baptista@publicroot.org> wrote:
People please - stop with the bull shit. This has been covered time and time again. The root server operators are a clan of 13 root operators who I like to call the 113 ugly root sisters.
Now THIS is BS! They perform a voluntary service to
the united states government
To Internet Users actually. - but have no contracts with any branch of the
united states government.
Except of course, for NASA, DOD, etc.
<snip>
In any case there just 13 fellows who we can consider the gods of the Internet.
Oh please this is the thickest BS ever.
What they see the users of the Internet sees.
as it should be.
They as a group are ultimately the people who run the Internet - not ICANN.
smelly BS, as you know, no one entity or group "runs" the Internet.
They are not in any way accountable to anyone.
They all have shareholders/Boards of Directors/other stakeholders that they are accountable to. I think a handful have
contracts with ICANN. Most do not. So they are not accountable to anyone.
as above, most may not be accountable to ICANN, but if they were, you and your fellow ICANN haters would, no doubt, object strenuously to such an arrangement.
If the 13 ugly root sisters chose to elope and leave ICANN then ICANN is finished.
rubbish. <snip> -- Cheers, McTim