[governance] How do ICANN's actions hurt the average Internet

[Roland Perry]

In message <4A5400E2.2080402 at cavebear.com>, at 19:13:54 on Tue, 7 Jul 
2009, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> writes
>If the lights were to go out on a big part of DNS, as they did in 
>actuality over the US Northeast, and somebody calls ICANN and says "fix 
>it", ICANN's answer will be "not our job".

So what failed, to cause that DNS outage?

If it was every ISP's connectivity to every DNS root server (or to most 
tld servers), that does indeed sound like something outside ICANN's 
ability to fix.

I'd be interested to know the exact issue, as some tld operators claim 
100% historical availability of their DNS servers.
-- 
Roland Perry
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