RE: The Green Paper is One Small Component

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net>]

On Thursday, March 19, 1998 6:42 PM, Karl Denninger[SMTP:karl at mcs.net] wrote:
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@The Internet as a whole has been content to suck at the Federal Teat now 
@for years in the form of critical infrastructure and connectivity. 
@

The best thing that the U.S. Government could do would be
to pull the plug on all of the servers and the funding they
provide for people to fly around the world to IETF meetings
telling everyone that they should use those servers or the
sky will fall.

The U.S. Government is obviously not going to do this. They
are getting in deeper with the Green Paper. Sure the lame NSF
will get shuffled aside, but now the DOC, DOJ, and DOD will
step in to manage the so-called IANA Root Name Servers.
This will probably result in more people appearing at the IETF
meetings to dictate what will happen. They might bring Jon
Postel to say the words, but the words will come from the
U.S. Government.

If they tell Postel to put entries in the legacy Root Name
Servers, they will be entered. This is the way it should be.
This should not be surprising to anyone. For years people
have been saying that the IAB and IETF should encourage
the development of a distributed RSC system. People
resisted. You only have yourselves to blame if you do not
like the outcome...
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI