Re: Democratically Elected Management for the New Registries!!!

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 11:39 AM -0800 12/5/96, Bryant Durrell wrote:

> ISOC has precisely the power that the people who run the millions of
> computers that make up the Internet give it.  The same goes for the
> IANA, the IAHC, and yes, even the Alternic.  If you can convince UUNet,
> AOL, Sprint, MCI, BBN, et al to pay attention to you, then you have as
> much power as ISOC.  We're a voluntary cooperative out here.
>
> The question that you should be asking is *why* people listen to Jon
> and Perry and Don and Hank and Paul, and why they don't listen to Bob
> and Jim and Eugene.  There are really two basic possibilities here.
> You can assume that it's because of an old boy's network, force of
> habit, and the like; or you can assume that it's because certain people
> have proven that they're competent to provide top-level direction for
> global Internet issues.  And continue to prove this.
>

Why? Trust. Hence my earlier comments about it.


Simon

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