Re: War of Internet Governance: 1995 - ????

[Bob Allisat <tor@wtv.net>]

Kent wrote:
>Jon's authority really boils down to what the people who run the root
>servers do.  The bottom line is, they pay attention to Jon Postel, and
>they don't pay attention to you.  Jon has credibility and a reputation
>for integrity that has been built up over many years.  You don't have 
>either.

 So we are neing held hostage by the
 personal relations between Jon (IANA)
 and thirteen other people or firms?
 How can this crucial bottleneck be 
 even vaguely acceptable when so many
 hundreds of billions of dollars and
 millions of people's livelyhoods are
 at stake??!! This situation is an
 anachronicm that would be inconcievable
 in any other field of communications.

 Imagine all telephone exchnages being
 dependant on one guy and his dozen odd
 buddies getting along! And if they didn;t
 like you for some reason or other you
 wouldn't get a phone number. Absurd.
 
 There should be scores of Root Servers
 worldwide as Fleming so wisely suggested
 many moons ago. I also made a nifty Logo
 for his Root 64 idea that ya'll could use
 (if you're real nice about it!). It's viewable
 as part of my Portfolio below.

 TeleVirtually Yours,

 Bob Allisat

 Director, World TeleVirtual Network             http://www.wtv.net
 PO Box 191 St E Toronto Canada M6H 4E2                 tor@wtv.net
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