Gordon Cook wrote: > deal's done. the IANA employees are effectively working for naval > captain mike roberts now and I am getting very interesting reports > of the orders capatin mike is giving his sailors. > > if i were don teleage every evening after counting my blessing for > the NSI stock close i would read the EFF green paper comments. those > are the people who are in charge. Temporarily I might add. This entire story has been such a roller coaster of reversals and upsets that anything is possible in the months and years ahead. Captain Mike, with the apparent full blessing of Billy Clinton, is organizing what amounts to a cyber-league of nations. Akward, unwieldy, destined to fail, a sort of virtual stop gap ICANN is one of those things that will, one way or another, go away. Likewise a lot of these equally quixotic alternative proposals. I suspect due to technical innovation much more than political machinations. Remember... all this fuss is over data and software that can easily fit on a CD ROM and more than adequately be handled by standard, off the shelf computers. Desk-top DNS, IP Addressing and Internet Governance may well be the way to go. Power to the people and direct is the solution to all this central authority bull-ship. Bob Allisat Free Community Network _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fcn.net _ http://fcn.net/allisat [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
