On Jan 19, 2012, at 11:54 35AM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:04 -0500 Noel Chiappa > <jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> For those who haven't seen it, here: >> >> Next battle over Net ramps up worldwide >> http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71625.html >> >> is an interesting story, one which is also fairly accurate >> (often not true of major media stories about the Internet). > > Yes, although to describe ICANN's decision making process as a > "technical body" or "mostly devoid of politics" requires living > in a reality different from that understood by anyone who has > followed their policy development processes in recent years. > Maybe this is even ok, but... To Politico, I think "devoid of politics" means there are no Republicans or Democrats involved, and the nodes in our protocol state machines aren't colored red or blue... --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf