Re: Special Report on Internet Governance Published

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

At 10:13 PM 8/4/97 -0400, Jay@Iperdome.com wrote:
>At 11:11 AM 8/3/97 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>>Part III: A Scenario for a Political Resolution of the DNS Crisis
>>>new ways of looking at the DNS problem. The DNS wars can be seen not so
>>>much as wars over Domain Names but as wars over the power that comes from
>>
>>	Yes, it is clear that many people are viewing this as a fight for power.
>>In the process of viewing things that way, they ignore the operational
>>concerns which prompted the original efforts.  Name space congestion under
>>.com is a matter of operational difficulty, not power. 
>
>Name space congestion!
>
>We need to set up Global Internet Governance *right away* to 
>avoid nasty name space congestion?  
>
>I agree that solutions to name space questions are long 
>overdue, however, Global Internet Governance is too important 
>a topic to rush into an arrangement that all Netizens will have 
>to live with for years to come.

Jay, where did you ever see among the IAHC/iPOC papers the words "Global
Internet Governance (GIG)"?  Yes, do work on setting it up and getting the
support of the US Govt, EU and ASEAN (and others).  Get buyin from the
Internet industry.  The IAHC work does NOT have on its agenda getting into
GIG.  People have requested that we tackle ISO country code domains.  We
have refused.  People have asked us to tackle many things and we have
consisently said no since that would have expanded our scope and we wished
to stay focused on just one item - expanding the number of gTLDs, all the
while, creating competition and handling the trademark issues.

At some point GIG will come along and fold into it the entire gTLD issue.
GIG will tackle pornography, trade, anonymity, spam, etc.  If you thing the
gTLD work is GIG, let me assure you that it isn't even close.  Go handle the
items listed above and help form a GIG.  gTLDs is an operational issue and
has very little to do with GIG.



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>
>Regards,
>
>Jay Fenello
>President, Iperdome, Inc.  
>404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com
>
>
Hank Nussbacher
iPOC member
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