more on US Drops ICANN/DNS Bombshell (on WSIS?)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>
Date: July 1, 2005 3:02:01 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on US Drops ICANN/DNS Bombshell (on WSIS?)
Reply-To: dcrocker () bbiw net


Dave,



> In the light of this development, ICANN now has to make some clear   
> statements on its attitude to indefinite continuance of unilateral  
> US control
> of Internet root zone policy.


Perhaps there is an additional announcement made by the U.S.  
government, but the one I read said nothing like "indefinite" or  
"unilateral".

I believe the relevant text in the announcement is:

     "As such, the United States is committed to taking no action
     that would have the potential to adversely impact the effective
     and efficient operation of the DNS and will therefore maintain
     its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the
     authoritative root zone file."

Well, indeed this does sound pretty controversial.

I am sure folks were expecting that the U.S. government would  
announce that it would be quite happy and ready to take action that  
would have the potential to adversely impact the effective...  Well,  
you see my point.

Methinks the mystical process of reading the tea leaves used to  
produce governmental announcements requires a bit more consideration  
than this one seems to have gotten.

--
  d/

 Dave Crocker
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