Re: What is at stake?

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, George Michaelson wrote:

> We'll know when the Internet 'matters' on this measure, when they
> take the management and oversight away from the IETF.

The IETF has neither management nor oversight.

Have you been paying attention to ICANN, or to that hubbub over
Postel's 1998 'unsanctioned' DNS root server move?


> Like all other conspiracy theories, this falls down on defining
> who 'they' are and 'matters'.
>
> Australian State and Federal statistics on Internet only began a couple
> of years ago. But Australia was connected back in '87/'88.

in an intermittent fashion.

L.

'Australia's fallen off the net again!'

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