Re: Battle Heats Up - but the real issues are still being hidden

[Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>]

At 04:05 PM 10/5/98 -0400, Ronda Hauben wrote:
>The U.S. Govt is offering to set up a private corporation 
>for them to be able to carry on their control over the Internet 
>with no accountability or oversight over what they do.

With all due respect, I don't believe that's an accurate description of the
current IANA proposal. There are three "supporting organizations" that have
this oversight. They are explicitly not US in origin, and are intended to
be international. There is also a specific comment about the make-up of the
board (if it's still in the current draft) which suggests an equal number
of persons from each major geographic region of the planet.

>Therefore, the third proposal is one I was asked to write by Ira 
>Magaziner, after I complained to him and the world
>online and at ISOC in Geneva, about what was happening in 
>privatizing these essential functions.

As I understand your proposal, you would have the US government, with other
countries who choose to participate, fund a project to write a proposal.
That proposal would include a record of history about the DNS, and suggest
a way to manage it.

First, check me on that - do I correctly understand your proposal?

Second, assuming that I do understand it, let me say that I believe that we
are past the time for a research project. We are at a point where the
discussions that needed to happen have for the most part happened, and most
of the parties understand each other's viewpoints. Now is the time for
closure and action.