may i answer....? the answer should scare the shit out of everone here and
in effect thank god congress grabbed the money and gave it to nsf for NGI
and internet 2.
the fund was originally known as the the internet intellectual
infrastructure fund..... it was known by mitchel and others that
eventually us gov't support for iana would cease....thus it was intended
for ***iana*** and ietf and other related kinds of things.
thus in one sense at least if congress had not grabbed it, it could have
been grabbed by the perverted unaccountable monster created by vint cerf,
don heath, mike roberts and larry landweber along with mike nelson and
roger cchetti and john patrick of IBM - the monster known as ICANN.
At 10:33 AM 5/19/99 -0400, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>At 07:34 PM 5/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>From: "FEDIX OPPORTUNITY ALERT"
>>--------------------
>>A US appeals court ruled Friday that the money in a $62-million
>>Internet Development fund was collected legally from registrants of
>>Internet addresses and could be spent on internet development. The
>>news delighted officials at the National Science Foundation, which
>>has already pledged to spend the money on network-research projects
>>at dozens of universities.
>
>Dubious. Ask the man who single handedly created the fund
>what it's supposed to be used for: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>(Don Mitchell)
>
>
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