Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:48:21 -0700
From: Todd Glassey tglas...@earthlink.net
Actually Dean - good point - the MOU was never codified in a formal
contract meaning that the US Department of Commerce still formally owns
the root's and so under this newly proposed cyber-control law would
Dean Anderson wrote:
BTW, RFC2870 is not the authority on root server operations. The
authority is found in the MoU with ICANN that root server operators are
supposed to sign. Rumor has it that many root server operaters haven't
signed the MoU, defying ICANN's authority over their operation.
Dean Anderson wrote:
Todd is right. While I rather doubt that the USG /would/ shut down the
roots or ARIN (thats pretty extreme), I believe the objective of the
bill is to make explicit and indisputable USG control over
infrastructure. As I understand it, the objective of the bill is so that
the
