[governance] USG on ICANN - no movement here

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com]
> > Internet.  The chances of something really bad happening would be
much
> > higher, e.g., a bunch of small countries gang up and demand that
each
> > country gets the same number of IP addresses, or something else that
> > has superficial political appeal but would be technically
disastrous.
> 
> not to mention not physically possible, as countries don't "get" IP
> addresses, organisations do.

McTim, there is nothing "physically impossible" about delegating IP
addresses to nations first. We probably agree that it is politically
undesirable, but don't make the mistake of trying to make a policy point
by making false technical claims. 

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