At 07:25 AM 3/3/99 -0500, Kevin J. Connolly wrote:
>Dear Readers:
>
>Sean Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/02/99 at 02:33PM
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>{snip}
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>>Singapore, March 2, 1999 ) A powerful group of governments today endorsed
the
>>establishment of the private-sector model for the technical administration
>of the Internet. In a >critical milestone for the establishment of the new
>market-led technical management structure, >nearly 20 national governments
>from around the world reinforced the need for market-led >solutions to the
>fast-moving evolution of the Internet. Their actions confirmed the
>principles >first put in motion by the United States government in July 1998.
>
>The declaration that the principles underlying ICANN's activity were first
>put in motion by the United States government in July 1998 should finally
Jeez Kev, I guess this doesn't count the Green Paper (Feb98), or even that
the White Paper was actually in Jun98. Not to mention the May98 Aspen meeting.
>put to rest any thought that this process is in any way related to Jon
>Postel's ur-proposal or Don Heath's revision of it. ICANN is not about the
>enlargement of the generic top level domain space; and while, perhaps, such
>a enlargement may ultimately take place, it is doubtful in the extreme that
>the expansion will be of the type that anyone other than a small number of
>well-heeled cyberbarons envision.
Do you want to explicate which proposals you are discussing. There were so
many of them. The IANA alone was responsible for four drafts. At one time I
counted, among the various versions of four different proposals, over 12
documents (I have every one of them in my PDF archives, off-line of course
<grin>).
>Apparently, all of the work that was done by ISOC, PAB, and the IAHC are
>neither worthy of mention nor hopeful of progeny under the ICANN regime.
>This is sad to see.
If you actually read the proposals, many of the ideas and concepts have
actually been incorporated. However, subject to a much more open process,
they have been suitably modified. IMHO, this is a Good Thing(tm).
>Kevin J. Connolly
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