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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Shutdown of lists on May 30th at 12:01 AM
At 9:36 AM -0700 5/29/97, Richard J. Sexton wrote: >You seem to vascilate between "It's a public resource" (in whcih case >can the public not add to it") and "IANA owns it" (in which case there It's difficult to be careful in using language, isn't it? For example, I never have said that IANA "owns" the DNS. I said it has administrative authority for it. The DNS is a public resource and IANA oversees it. IANA operates based on general community consensus. This is what has always been true and continues to be true. There's no vacilation or ambiguity in this. Never has been. >There was once a time when the entire Internet accepted IANA's authotiry. Except for the few pirates, the entire Internet still does. >And failed, being rejected by: > US GOV't > NSI > Major ISP's > Author of the DNS itself Richard, it's difficult to be careful in using language, isn't it? * The effort has not been rejected by the US government. * Having NSI take an antagonistic role is hardly noteworthy, given that they are desperately trying to preserve their windfall revenue stream. * While you claim rejection by major ISPs (I seem to recall only one that is openly negative) you fail to mention that it is also supported by major ISPs. * As to the author of the DNS, Paul often takes critical positions but I'm not aware of his taking a specific stance against the IAHC plan. >which is enough to render it useless. How easily you ignore the many and diverse signatories. >Can we get past the petty politics and try to develop a best compromise You seem to forget that that is exactly what the IAHC was. After 2 years of failed effort, IANA asked the IAHC to formulate a compromise plan. We did. It is now being implemented. d/ -------------------- Dave Crocker, Director +1 408 246 8253 Internet Mail Consortium (f) +1 408 249 6205 675 Spruce Dr. [email protected] Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA [email protected] , http://www.imc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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