[169779] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US to relinquish control of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Mar 15 00:59:12 2014
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403142308190.89527@joyce.lan>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:53:11 -0700
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 14, 2014, at 8:13 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>> I look forward to the ITU equitably allocating domain names and IP
>>> addresses.
>=20
>> "NTIA will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a =
government or an inter-governmental organization solution."
>=20
> Let's hope you're right, but I note that the ITU isn't an =
inter-governmental organization, it's (depending on which part of their =
web site you believe) a specialized agency of the United Nations, or an =
organization based on public-private partnership since its inception, =
with a membership of 193 countries and over 700 private-sector entities =
and academic institutions. Sounds totally multistakeholder to me.
>=20
The United Nations _IS_ an inter-governmental organization and the ITU =
would be considered part of the UN in this context, I believe.
Owen
