Internet Governance and IANA

Daniel
      whatever about name registries, address registries are
pretty well structured, and recognised as such, both locally
and regionally.  Local IRs are involved in the governance of 
their regional IRs and, thanks to you and your peers, there
is close cooperation between the regionals and a high degree
of alignment between their respective policies and procedures.

There shouldn't be any great difficulty in the interim board 
acknowledging this and including representation from the 
regional address registries in the interim board.  The regionals
are all properly incorporated, albeir outside the USA.  I'm sure
you've said something like this already.

Regards.

Mike

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> From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net>
> To: RIPE Local Internet Registries WG <lir-wg at ripe.net>
> Subject: Internet Governance and IANA
> Date: 26 May 1998 10:24
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> Date:     Tue, 19 May 1998 08:35:19 -0700
> From:     postel at ISI.EDU
> To:       Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net
> Subject:  Re: governance
> 
> An update from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
> 
> IANA is continuing to provide the neutral, central coordinating
> functions for the global Internet.
> 
> As we await the United States government's final statement on the
> "Improvement of Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses"
> (also known as the "Green Paper"), we are in the process of
> reorganizing and restructuring the IANA organization.  This process
> will create an independent, not-for-profit corporation.  The new IANA
> will establish separate offices from the University of Southern
> California and its Information Sciences Institute, where IANA is now
> located.
> 
> We are selecting legal representation and preparing initial bylaws and
> articles of incorporation.  The bylaws are being constructed to allow
> for international representation on the board of directors by address
> registries, domain name registries and registrars, protocol
> organizations, and the user/industry community.  Since the deadline for
> having this organized may not permit a fully representative board to be
> in place initially, we expect to create a transitional board who will
> then conduct a process to establish the first fully functioning board
> with world-wide representation of all constituencies.
> 
> In the spirit of community self-governance, we welcome your advice and
> suggestions.
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