I made some comments a few weeks back about the new IANA Inc and what it's responsibilites might include. Well it appears that, although I was harrassed and bagged for saying many of the things, you shoudl be aware of the following: - IP addresses and Domain Names WILL BE managed by the new organisation. This could involve organisaiotns like APNIC actually PAYING for management and allocation to the US Organisation. - A suggestion that seperate NAME and NUMBER councils be established to ensure some kind of speration. The recommendations would then be sent to the board of directors. - The Whitepaper clearing indicates that NO GOVERNMENT BODY, or international organisation (UN, ITU etc) will be significant in the new Corporation. However it does clearly indicate that National Governments can and should take full responsibility for the administration and management of their allocated ccTLD. - The new corporation will be headed in the USA, only because there are "significantly more DNS expertise in the United States." - The Green Paper proposed a 15-member Board, consisting of three representatives of regional number registries, two members designated by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), two members representing domain name registries and domain name registrars, seven members representing Internet users, and the Chief Executive Officer of the new corporation. The recommendation is that the "two User Seats" be used "thoughtfully" to represent all the other people in the world, including the countries connected to the Internet. (Who are you going to vote for?) - The UGS will not impliment any new gTLD's. (This is no surprise.) - Funding will come from Regional Registries (.AU is a regional Registry be definition of the White Paper) and Number Assignment ORgs (APNIC) - IANA staff will make the transition to the new Corporation. (Guess this means we'll need to start paying these people wages. What $5 a name or address block per year? Maybe more??) There is a little more, to do with Trade Mark owners and disputes, but overall certainly no real surpises. Most of my speculations were on the mark. Even the Interim Board Members and it's "Term Period" was pretty close. I certainly wasn't wrong about IANA being turned into the new Corp (Sorry David, Fleming was also on the mark here. If anyone has any questions regarding this, please respond to me IN PRIVATE by email to mailto:dns§ah.net , if you would like to read the Whitepaper itself, I can forward the URL, although there are plenty of news worthy reports as listed below: Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 18:58:34 -0800 From: Ellen Rony <erony§MARIN.K12.CA.US> Subject: Early media response to White Paper Domain white paper comes up short (C/Net - June 5, 1998) - http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22869,00.html Domain.Name: White House backs off (ZDNet - June 5, 1998) - http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/domain.html Proposed federal rules leave many issues unresolved (MSNBC - June 5, 1998) - http://www.msnbc.com/news/170728.asp Fed domain plan defers decisions (C/Net - June 5, 1998) - http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22854,00.html Magaziner: Domain consensus possible (C/Net - June 5, 1998 - http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22879,00.html Links to these selected news articles have been set up at domainhandbook.com/news.html Enjoy people. Now the USG has made it's statement and thanks to certain people egging the Minister for Telecommunications to get involved, (there is a published response to the AU Submission - I'd say it's not exactly "flattering") we might see AU being governmentally controlled after all. Oh - and what about the CORE and it's members? We'll I've been informed that about 20 members have asked for their $10,000 to be refunded, not to mention their $2,000 a month since November last year. I speculated in Jnuary that this might in fact have been funds received or collected with intent to defraud. I'm waiting to hear if anyone will take action. I'd love to know if Melbourne IT will be asking for their $10,000 refund. I spose Capital Networks in Canberra, Moniker and namedhost will also be, eventually looking for their refunds too. Ouch, $10K on a game of russian roulette. I'd have put my $10K into CORE if it had operational servers - like "that other group" some of you have me talking about. Anyway as this is an official position statement for the beneift of Australian ISP's, and I'm sure only one of many opinons, (if you see any, can you ensure the writers send me their comments directly, I'd hate to miss something,) you will find my FULL sig below and of course that "organisation's" URL that some of you just love to hate. Onward with Domain Name competition. And to those people who have been writing to me about establishing a Free TLD, lets get cracking. Now is a PERFECT time! THE DOMAIN NAME HANDBOOK http://www.domainhandbook.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The advice offered in this email is not considered professional advice, or it would be accompanied by an invoice. No permission is granted for republication of comments, without written consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Business Development, Technology Domain Registration and Network Advisory Telstra Convey Member AURSC http://www.aursc.ah.net Adam Todd Personal http://adamtodd.ah.net at§aus or at@ah.net http://adam.says.sheesh Phone +61 2 9729 0565 Network http://www.ah.net AU Internet News http://www.ah.net/lists/lwgate/INTERNET/ AU Internet User Mail List http://www.ah.net/lists/lwgate/OZ-USER/Received on Sat Jun 06 1998 - 22:43:31 UTC
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