[169778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US to relinquish control of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Mar 14 23:29:13 2014
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:28:36 +0000
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403142308190.89527@joyce.lan>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:13 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
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>> "NTIA will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a gove=
rnment or an inter-governmental organization solution."
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> Let's hope you're right, but I note that the ITU isn't an inter-governmen=
tal organization, it's (depending on which part of their web site you belie=
ve) a specialized agency of the United Nations, or an organization based on=
public-private partnership since its inception, with a membership of 193 c=
ountries and over 700 private-sector entities and academic institutions. S=
ounds totally multistakeholder to me.
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> Unhelpfully,
> John
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> PS: And the ITU is definitely not a solution.
Excellent point... given that ITU's (full) Members are governments, I susp=
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it would be deemed an inter-governmental organization, but in the end it's =
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NTIA's views on this question that will actually matter.
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
