Splitting The Root

My latest Times article, entitled “Splitting The Root“, is now available. It talks about the seriously unfortunate consequences that would result if any government or jurisdiction decided to break away from the unified ICANN DNS root.

9 thoughts on “Splitting The Root

  1. “Imagine that, instead of being created by Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman working at CERN in Switzerland, the internet had been invented by …”

    s/internet/web/

  2. It talks about the seriously unfortunate consequences that would result if any government or jurisdiction decided to break away from the unified ICANN DNS root.

    s/would/will/. China has already begun to break away.

  3. Wow! That is fantastically well written. I can point my completely non-technical friends to that and not only will they understand what could happen, but they’ll also understand just how serious this issue is. Nice one Gerv!

  4. This is off-topic, but why did it used to say at the bottom that you claim to work for the Mozilla Foundation, where it now says “Gervase Markham works for the Mozilla Foundation”?