Hi A.M. Rutkowski, you wrote on 7/8/99 8:07:26 PM:
>Gene,
>
>>All the same issues remain... ICANN has just delayed their appropriate
>>resolution (and that is, indeed, a shame).
>
>The problem with ICANN is that it created more
>problems than it solved. Perhaps it's legacy
>will be that it forced people to consider what
>the Internet did and didn't need. With ICANN
>out of the way, it whittles things down to the
>essential requirements.
>
>These would seem to include:
>
>1) funding someone part time at ISI or CNRI
>to maintain the protocol registry files.
While less painful to initiate, I am not sure this is the only approach to
consider. Maybe more appropriate (and generic) is "Fund the maintenance of
the protocol registry files"
>
>2) some coordination mechanism among the
>regional IP registries that involves the
>ISPs.
Agreed, in whatever form that may be determined... but by whom? The
problem remains forming an organization with as little bias toward any one
fiefdom as possible. Again, while not perfect by any stretch, an IETF-like
model might be one approach.
>
>3) some independent corporation to run a set
>of DNS servers and maintain a root zone file
>that also allows new TLDs to be entered.
There are several in place already with the appropriate level of technical
expertise and a good start on working models. None is perfect, but there
are some good ideas already in place. The difficulty is in getting others
to release the stranglehold they have on control of the current root
system, then getting those with the working alternatives to coalesce to
some agreeable cooperative structure.
>
>These are pretty separate functions that
>just about anybody could do.
>
>Anything else being missed?
Like it or not, there does need to be an approach toward intellectual
property issues. This *could* be as simple as a policy statement
supporting the existing resolution potentials within individual
countries/jurisdictions. Any other model will clash with someone's view of
IP issues.
>
>
>--tony
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I'm very happy @.HOME(sm)
Gene Marsh
president, anycastNET Incorporated
