Re: newIANA (was Fram behind closed doors via opaque channels)

[mueller <mueller at syr.edu>]

No, sir, the facts are more like this:
IANA, along with NSF, ISOC, and others, participated in international
negotiations about the future of the Internet root servers (via IAHC) when they
had absolutely no legal authority to do so. IANA and ISOC somehow managed to
convince themselves that they "owned" the root. They did not. That is precisely
why the USG stepped in.

But this argument is unproductive. We have moved beyond IAHC.

--MM

Masataka Ohta wrote:

> Mueller;
>
> > ISI's involvement with the Internet is purely a
> > product of US Government funding. IANA is nothing but a government contract
> > with the US Defense Department. Do you want the US Defense Department to be
> > responsible for the basic coordinating functions of the global Internet?
>
> According to your strange theory, the international activity of
> iAHC was initiated under the administration of USG that it was
> too late that Ira complained about it. PERIOD.
>
>                                                         Masataka Ohta