A Serious and Responsible Proposal

[Bob Allisat <bob@wtv.net>]

Dave Crocker wrote:
:The basis for choosing Switzerland has been repeatedly and at length.  
:If you have a serious and responsible argument against the choice,
:feel free to offer a serious and responsible proposal.  Absent either 
:the serious criticism or the serious counter-proposal, people might
:be left with no choice but to think that you are engaging in wasteful
:carping.

 An international agreement among
 governments and other interested 
 concerns on the matter of Domain
 Name/IP address allocation is
 vitally required. This proces
 would create international guide-
 lines all signatory nations would
 agree upon and allow uniform and
 fair regulation at the regional
 level to occur. It would disperse
 and decentralize the allocation 
 of Domain Names/IP Adresses and
 encourage competition and a free,
 open Internet.

 We are now confronted with three
 choices two of them equally unpleasant:
 the status quo of an American corporate
 monopoly and some sort of odd proposal
 for corporations to shelter behind
 some amorphous Swiss based 'Verien"
 monopoly. The only positive choice is
 to seek a true consensus among a wide
 range of parties and procede from there
 with an agreement in hand. As it now
 stands there is no agreement and
 only confusion and chaos ahead for
 the millions of predominantly North
 Americans who will be adversely
 affected by this turmoil.

 TeleVirtually Yours,

 Bob Allisat

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