Andy Updegrove writes “Once upon a time, there was something new called “the Internet,” and it was an unknown quantity. While some guessed what it could become, most did not. Famously, Mark Andreessen – of Mosaic, and later Netscape fame – and Tim Berners-Lee did, while Bill Gates did not. Less publicly, those that helped to create something that came to be called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – or ICANN – did, and the standards analogue of Bill Gates – the International Telecommunications Union – or ITU – did not. As a result, ICANN got the root directories to the Internet – and the ITU did not. They’ve never forgotten – and they want them.”
Link: ConsortiumInfo.org
