We'll fork the Web to keep it Free - Perens

[Brian Russo]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:11:27AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> While we are at it, we should fork DNS in order to get rid of the abusive
> ICANN and Verisign.

Getting rid of ICANN and verisign does not require an alternate protocol.

> Only problem: The industry wont follow.  I am completely against RAND in W3C
> standards, but if we fork web standards, we may be the only ones
> implementing our own standards and further alienate ourselves from the
> industry.

Do you have a better idea?

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