All, As has been my and our members contention for years, it's good and heartening to read a well reasoned and considered bit on whom should be managing Internet resources. However I believe that Comcast got it's just reward. Yet the pulling of the plug on Usenet is not reasonable as cleaning it up can and should be doable. However the Usenet groups that promote Child Porn should be shut down immediately! Such action does not predicate or require that ALL of Usenet have it's proverbial plug pulled... Yet recent events and lack of precipitous action on the part of ICANN and the IANA regarding DNS, has given many of our members to be yet again reconsider that perhaps some USG regulation on DNS and IP address management, is needed. Such management should come from professional Technical folks, not social science bureaucrats and/or activists of various bents. See: http://www.brettglass.com/FCC/remarks.html Brett Glass writes "In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701... makes a case against government regulation of the Internet, opining that 'engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems.' With state governments pressuring ISPs to http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/17/2243210&tid=95 pull the plug on Usenet, and a proposal now in play for a http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/080124-tk.html censored public Internet, McDowell may have a very good point." McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote with the majority to http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/27/1257237&tid=230 punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827