Ira Magaziner delivers a Victory for the Internet

[Jay@Iperdome.com]

FYI:

>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:17:02 -0500
>From: Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv@lists.psi.com>
>
>Ira Magaziner delivers a Victory for the Internet
>
>We followed up last night's post with a phone call to Ira Magaziner's
>office.  He returned the call about 90 minutes ago.  We stated our concern
>about the allegations that the Interagency Working Group would be
>announcing policy tomorrow, and that according to Dave Crocker's
>conversations yesterday with Chuck Gnomes, NSI's front line manager for
>DNS, IANA would very soon be asking for the inclusion of the seven CORE
>gTLDs in the root servers. That according to Crocker "there is nothing
>unknown about the request that will be issued, except for the precise date
>and we know that date is approaching quickly."  We restated our concern
>about the harm that would come from such a disruption of the status quo
>adding that people who knew the Internet far better than Brian Kahin and
>Becky Burr and Mike Nelson were convinced that there was no crisis of any
>immediate nature that demanded any immediate action on the part the
>Clinton Administration to disrupt the status quo which we understood to be
>that the National Science Foundation had, with the full approval, of the
>Inter-Agency Working Group last summer instructed Network Solutions *NOT*
>to add any new gTLDs to the root servers.
>
>On record, Mr. Magaziner said that there are lots of discussions going on
>among lots people both inside and outside of government.  There is a lot
>more discussion and consultation that has to take place before any
>decisions are made about what the government should or shouldn't do and
>that there is nothing on the immediate horizon that will in any way change
>the status quo.  Moreover these discussions are going to need to ripen and
>take place over the next weeks and perhaps even months before any
>decisions are made disturb the current situation.
>
>From Magaziner's statement we can assume that - other press rumors to the
>contrary - neither Kahin, nor Burr, nor Nelson, nor NTIA, nor DOC will
>have any new policy to announce on behalf of the Clinton Administration
>any time soon.
>
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Jay Fenello
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