Re: NTIA will control the root name servers?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

On 03/07/05, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) <nanog () adns net> wrote:
> Already entire nations are dropping ICANN. China for one and now
> Turkey.

You know something .. the turks, or at least one minor government /
industry department there, seem to have been drinking the public root
koolaid.

> (TBD) and Unified Identity Technology (UNIDT), officials announced on Wednesday.
>
> Access to TLDs is supported by a federation called Public-Root, which emerged due to 

Oh well

As for china they have been saying a whole lot of things, several
quite contradictory to each other

For now they're [I think] pressing for more accountablity + oversight
role for the ICANN GAC ..

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)