Re: Revised draft charter for DNSEXT

[Kevin Darcy <kcd@daimlerchrysler.com>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 06:20:57PM -0400,
>  Ólafur Guðmundsson /DNSEXT co-chair <ogud@ogud.com> wrote 
>  a message of 43 lines which said:
>
>   
> > The DNS is a critical Internet infrastructure,
> >     
>
> Someone whispered in my ear that "critical Internet infrastructure" is
> an heavily loaded buzzword, specially in governance contexts (ICANN,
> IGF, etc) which can even trigger legal consequences.
>
>   
Call a spade a spade. Clearly DNS is an infrastructure that is critical 
to the functioning of today's Internet -- if anyone doubts/disputes 
that, try taking it away for even a brief interval, and see what happens.

If there are legal consequences, so be it. We don't call a rabbit an 
elephant just because we're afraid some overzealous lawyer might file an 
annoying rabbit-related lawsuit some day, or some bureaucrat might claim 
control over all rabbit matters.

                                                                        
                    - Kevin


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