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IP: Re: ISOC Forces Announce: Open IFWP IANA Process Doomed to
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:02:42 -0700
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:49:55 -0400 To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> From: Charles Brownstein <cbrownst () cnri reston va us> Subject: Re: ISOC Forces Announce: Open IFWP IANA Process Doomed to Fail The latest IANA draft strikes me as more reasonably close to the broad directions of the IFWP meeting discussions in which I participated in Reston, albeit without n unworkable mechanisms for granting "governance rights", veto powers, or operational status to anyone off the street who claims them, or monopoly rights for claimed suffixes to every would-by profiteer with a lawyer and access to a list. The draft offers a solid starting place: overdetermined alternatives or no alternatives are not going to suffice to initiate private sector responsibility. Face it - a starting place is the mechanism for transition. I can think of few better ways to sustain the status quo than to sow dissension at this point. To me the real issue is the extent to which the domain name commercialization interests can organize themselves into an open responsible industry group- worthy of being a council of equivalent legitimacy to the others proposed. If it is not possible to move forward, retaining the US government as fiduciary -- given the outstanding record it has in that role, looks better and better all the time. Charles N. Brownstein Executive Director, XIWT Suite 100, 1895 Preston White Dr, Reston, VA 20191 email: cbrownst () cnri reston va us web: <http://www.xiwt.org> tel: 703.620.8990
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