RE: The formerly controversial sentence in the "Statement of Prin cipl es"

[Roberto Gaetano <Roberto.Gaetano@etsi.fr>]

Jeff,

You wrote:

> > I think that this is an important point: USG thinks that authority on
> the
> > root has to be held not by some Governmental agency, but by a private
> > corporation.
> 
>   Roberto, as was pointed out in the WP, the IANA is and has been funded
> by
> the USG.  You need to improve your reading skills.
> 
My impaired reading skills give the following sentence from the Revised
Policy Statement:

"In order to facilitate the needed coordination, Internet stakeholders are
invited to work together to form a new, private, not-for-profit corporation
to manage DNS functions."

 :>o

One of the purposes of this private corporation is:

"2) oversee operation of the authoritative Internet root server system"

 ;>))

Roberto

(if you're looking for somebody that overreacts feeling insulted, you have
found the wrong man) ;>))