[35908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bert hubert)
Sun Mar 18 20:01:30 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:40:27 +0100
From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039CEF@condor.mhsc.com>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:03:17PM -0800
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:03:17PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > some days I'd rather have the UN do it... :-)
>
> The ITU is a UN body, so is WIPO (a part of WTO).
If WIPO hadn't made some controversial decisions, I would suggest handing
over the root-servers to them. They are, AFAIK, the only truly
international organization.
But that only shifts the problem. The UN is also not an elected body, or at
least, it takes several levels of elections to reach them.
Regards,
bert
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