At 02:14 AM 7/12/99 +0200, Onno Hovers wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Lovell wrote:
>> Would NTIA, ICANN and you and I not all be better off if ICANN immediately
>> took over the "A" server, stuck it at a neutral place such as NIST out of
>> the hands of ALL of the wheeler dealers, took over domain names and the
>> whole schmear, and sent NSI packing back into a well deserved oblivion?
>> It is now quite beyond argument that NSI cannot be trusted either as the
>> registry or in any other capacity.
>
>The NTIA response to Bliley made a lot of things clear. The NTIA is
>certainly contemplating a rebid of the CA. They are not comfortable with
>the idea, since they talk about how it would be extremely destabilizing.
>But the list of disagreements between the NTIA and NSI is long.
>It reads like the classic story of a wife who is abused by her
>husband, but who thinks that separation is bad for her children.
>Some of these disagreements date back to Februari of this year. And the
>list is getting longer. So the question is, will the NTIA force NSI's
>hand? And if so, when?
Gosh that would be swell.
Take the A-ROOT away from NSI. Then, NSI can deploy whatever
root server it wants to. Maybe they could make it in the
stewardship of NSI and this list in some sort of cooperative
agreement.
And then people chould choose which version of the root they
wanted. The heavily regulated Becky Burr/Trademark Lobby root
or the other one run by the net community.
I think thats a swell idea and if big busines wants to get
a DNS NOT FOUND error on http://diet-coke.faq while the
geek community gets say, information about a soft drink, brought to
you by people that still remember free speech, then I'd say
we've built gpvernments and big business the kind of Internet
they want, while not, as a community betraying the open
principles the Internet was founded on.
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