Erik and all,
Erik.Huizer wrote:
> John,
>
> This is close to what Jeff Schiller proposed at the last POISSON meeting,
> and I can see the sens of it. The worry I have with this is that it may
> look very much to the outside world as "IETF drops ICANN" (film at eleven).
>
> ICANN is going ahead in a way I am pretty comfortable with. I think it is
> necessary for the IETF to support this by making clear to the world that we
> support the ICANN process (I say support, not that we sell the IETF to it).
>
> If ICANN does not get support from all sides (including IETF) I am afraid
> that other initiatives (like the rumor goes that the big telco's are
> planning a sepaarate ROOT-server set-up which they will promote with free
> bandwidth if ISPs use their root-server system) are threathening to the
> future operations of the Internet. A stable ICANN with broad support will
> prevent such desastrous initiatives.
You are too late here Erik. This process is already in progress, and slowly
growing as many of the telco's and regional ISP's are totally dissatisfied with
the dictatorial methods of the ICANN thus far. Continuing down this path,
the ICANN and maybe even the IETF will become redundant and unnecessary.
>
>
> Erik
Regards,
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