Fred and all,
Fred Baker wrote:
> At 03:10 PM 2/26/99 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > - The IEEE or ITU has to go to the IETF and ask for a number assignment.
>
> Today, this is reality
>
> > - The IEEE, ITU, and IETF (and others) are free to legislate the number
> > subject to the rules to be defined by ICANN.
>
> This is a better reality, I think, in that the ITU wants to be seen as
> subservient to the IETF about as much as the IETF wants to be subservient
> to the ITU. None-the-less, the rules for such want to be figured out in the
> PSO, not the ICANN Board, and the function wants to be separable from the
> DNS Mess. Until the PSO is set up, that leaves them with the IETF, it
> doesn't automagically move them somewhere that they have never been.
I would say that your conclusion here is questionable. We may submit
our own PSO proposal, or someone else may. I could even be imagined
given the current actions of the ICANN Board, that the ICANN itself may set
put forth it's own PSO proposal. Than what, Fred?
Regards,
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