[At-Large] FCC TO SCRAP NET NEUTRALITY, ICANN NOT AFFECTED.

[John R. Levine]

In the unlikely event that anyone's still interested, the FCC's new order 
only mentions the DNS in three places, in paragraphs 28, 29, and 37.  The 
context is that ISPs often run a DNS cache as an ancillary service, and it 
asks what difference it would make if they didn't, presumably directing 
their users to a third party service like 8.8.8.8 or 9.9.9.9.  While 
that's a semi-interesting question in trying to decide whether ISPs are a 
telecom or enhanced service, it has, as I've repeatedly pointed out, 
nothing to do with ICANN and its oversight of domain name management.

IP addresses are mentioned in paragraph 29, as what the DNS translates 
names to, and in Commisioner Clyburn's comments in passing in a discussion 
about what counts as a CMRS (mobile phone service) amd a few places 
indirectly in that ISPs sometiems do NAT (local IP address translation.) 
Again, semi-interesting in context, but nothing to do with anything ICANN 
does.

So again, why are we even talking about this in an ICANN forum?  I'll stop 
now.

R's,
John

PS: I guess the message here is that if someone can't tell you what parts 
of a document he's read, you can safely assume he hasn't read it.