regarding potential new IANA initial board members

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Postel <postel at ISI.EDU>
To: ietf at ietf.org <ietf at ietf.org>
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 1:30 PM
Subject: regarding potential new IANA initial board members


>
>Hello.
>
>There has been some discussion of candidates for the initial board for
>the new IANA organization.  While the current suggestions being
>circulated are appreciated, i don't think they provide the kind of
>board that would be most desireable.
>
>A key responsibility of the new IANA board is to see that policies and
>procedures are developed in a fair and open manner, not to rehash all
>the arguments and positions that go into developing those policies and
>procedures.
>


Greetings from ::83C9:209.224.171.1

I assume that you are referring to the IPv4 (0:0) address space and
therefore
the .ARPA TLD. Obviously, other people on Earth will be managing address
spaces and TLDs with different criteria and value systems from you and
your high-school friends and ISOC associates.

0:0    .ARPA
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt

Assuming that the Board is bounded by .ARPA and 0:0.X.X.X.X
I suggest that the current Internet Architecture BOARD (IAB)
http://www.iab.org/iab/ be used to create an interim Board to get
your U.S. corporation started. That will allow you to easily meet the
U.S. Government deadlines. It will also provide the IAB with a legal
structure, similar to the ISOC.

As for the other address spaces and TLDs, in my opinion the exit
of the U.S. Government on October 1st and availability of new TLDs
and IPv8 address spaces will pave the way for privatization to rapidly
occur. This expansion will depend for some period of time on the
.ARPA 0:0.X.X.X.X legacy transport network. How that network is
governed on a day to day basis does not have to impact the rest of
the free world, from a long-term point of view.

As with most aspects of the Internet, people can now route around
the legacy 0:0 Internet if they so desire. The technology is readily
available
(http://www.bsdi.com) and the will of the "everday people" on planet Earth
is still strong. I look forward to working with those people in the future.

Good luck with .ARPA and 0:0.X.X.X.X, it is just one of many...


Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
End-2-End: VPC(Java)--<IPv4>--C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at --<IPv4>--(Java)VPC
http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm






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