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 @mttaggart @mwl I don't think this is actually going to happen. There's so much stuff relying on .io at this point that I won't be surprised if major DNS providers just sidestep ICAN and take matters into their own hands. ICAN isn't omniscient and omnipotent, if the majority of the world decides that they shouldn't be in charge of DNS any more and that we'd rather use a different set of root servers, their power basically goes away. 5 comments
@mttaggart @mwl You wouldn't even necessarily have to go through with it; a credible threat of it happening could motivate ICAN to do the right thing here.  @miki @mttaggart @mwl A threat from? In the past it was from UN to take over both names and IP addresses management worldwide. See how much that happened... (new world conferences were created and exist today just for that history) @mttaggart @mwl You wouldn't even necessarily have to go through with it; a credible threat of it happening could motivate ICAN to do the right thing here.  |
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@miki @mwl It's possible this won't go into effect for some reason, but the proposal of replacing ICANN/IANA with another governing body is certainly a bigger upheaval than the loss of a single TLD.