RE: Yesterday's Congressional Hearing

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

As far as I know, Eugene Kaspureff was not paid by the
U.S. Government. Jon Postel is paid by the U.S. Government.
Do you see the difference ?

I have suggested in the past that the U.S. Government
should get OUT of the business of providing a Root Name
Server Cluster. Alternate RSCs could now handle the job
plus many ISPs just point directly to the TLD Clusters.

Instead of getting OUT of the business, the U.S. Government
has decided to first clean up the situation they are
in by getting more INTO the business. My point is simple,
if they are going to get in to clean up and then get out
they should do it properly and all of the i's and t's
should be taken care of. The current loosey-goosey
seat-of-the-pants approach will not allow them to clear
the air to make a clean exit.

Plus, it appears that ISPs and companies want the
U.S. Government to provide a gold-plated RSC. If they
did not, they would be working harder to set up other
RSCs. The IAHC/CORE group has not even taken that
simple step. This makes them subject to the U.S. Government's
legacy RSC. They are voting by not taking or providing
another path. The IETF has done the same thing, nothing.

Jim Fleming