If we lose the internet, it’s all over folks.
The current hardware the 'internet' is run on is owned by a large number of mostly capitalistic companies. Hardware comes, and hardware goes. There is probably still an AS400 mail relay out there that does reverse bang notation translations.
ICANN is a naming organization. Period. It has the canonical name:ip address list.
I can do it all without them. I can run my own DNS server. Or anyone can.
Currently in the works is a P2P distributed DNS list that is somewhat separated from ICANN.
Knowing how things really work is important.
/johnny
Like hell it is
“Nuts!” “It isn’t over until we say it’s over!”