"Javier A. Maestre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ronda Alternatives seem to be the next:
You should look at my proposal - as it was in fact the only
proposal that did provide for genuine International collaboration
and participation in solving the problem of putting IANA
on a protected and more internationally supported foundation.
My proposal is at
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/dns_proposal.txt
It is also available in French.
And it is available at the NTIA web site as well.
Someone recently asked me for some of the work I have done
to translate into Spanish and I pointed to the proposal, so
I hope it will be available in Spanish as well soon.
>1. A private, north American, organization under California
>jurisdiction or;
Why do you say a private organization?
You are describing ICANN, which is what the U.S. government has
created and is acting through in a hidden way.
We need a public IANA, not a private ICANN.
>2. A public, north American, organization belonging US Government, also
>under US jurisdiction.
>I wonder where the difference is. US Government, now, let the rest of
>the people, from the rest of the world, choose between two US based
>organization, public or private. Very good.
No the proposal I submitted called on the U.S. government to
form a prototype. That it is to fund computer science researchers
to begin to do some of what is needed for the Internet names
and numbers and protocols to be protected and for the problems
and activities concerning them to be out in public in a forum
that all online are encouraged to participate in. And other
nations are invited to support reseachers to work collaboratively
with the researchers supported by the U.S. government to determine
do the kind of study that is needed to figure out a real proposal
for solving the way to protect IANA from those who want to
grab the controlling functions of the Internet for their own
private purposes.
And the proposal also recognized that scaling the Internet is
a problem that will involve continued research and scientific
development, much as building the Internet has required.
>I agree absolutely with Jim: some new systems will emerge that are way
>beyond what NSI or the U.S. Government can imagine, and I hope this
>system will be really international and, in my opinion, public.
My proposal was "The Internet An International Public Treasure"
and it was to create a public entity.
Public requires government to be involved. The Internet has
grown up from governments being involved in a good way and
we need to build on that good way, not go backwards to the
bad ways of governments promoting private interests and
acting behind the scenes in harmful ways to the public.
Nice that you also want an international and public way
forward.
Have you looked at my proposal?
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>Javier A. Maestre
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