Re: [Ianaplan] What's happening at ICANN?

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 14 October 2015 13:01 UTC

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>Here's the key to this though: the "more technical" areas have had the
>ability to operate in that way because they are in a stewardship
>context where governmental inroads have been proscribed. ...

Huh.  And I always assumed it was because in neither the parameter
nor the number allocations is there a lot of money at stake.

R's,
John

PS: On the other hand, I remember X.400 and GOSIP.