Magaziners views

For those who did not yet see it:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/9867.html

"...
The one big difference is in the root zone servers,
which coordinate the addressing functions of the
Net's top-level domains and are currently managed
by NSI. They would be handed over to a private,
non-profit organization that Magaziner said would
be a "bottoms-up sort of stakeholder formed for
the Internet." 

What Magaziner is essentially recommending is
that the US government get out of the
management of the Internet. He said that certain
functions require coordination - such as assigning
blocks of numeric IP addresses, currently handled
by the government-chartered Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority, or IANA. This coordination,
Magaziner said, "should come from the Internet
community and not from our government, or any
other governmental institution. It rests from our
government for historical reasons, but we need to
get away from that."

He is advocating the creation of a new non-profit,
private sector institution - made up of the
stakeholders of the Internet - to handle this kind of
coordination, with current agencies such as IANA
folded into it. ..."


Marcel



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