[8551] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ad Hoc, eDNS, AlterNIC and the bunch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Apr 10 15:24:25 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 22:03:23 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: "Wayne D. Correia" <wayne@eff.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03007816af72df5aef2d@[204.107.140.22]>
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Wayne D. Correia wrote:
> At 7:40 PM +0300 4/10/97, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> >No one has mentioned anything about adding new root nameservers. Of the
> >over 25 signatories (so far), MCI is just one. UUnet, Digital, France
> >Telecom, EFF, are others that come to mind. The IAHC was selected by IAB,
> >IANA, ISOC, INTA, WIPO, ITU and NSF. The entire discussion was held in
> >public covering 8000 emails over a period of 3 months. You can see all
> >details at www.iahc.org including the MoU that will be signed at the end
> >of April inGeneva at the ITU. No one is adding root servers and gTLDs as
> >they wish. Please do not go by what you read in 3 paragraph newspaper
> >articles since much of what is stated is inaccurate. Go to the site and
> >go thru all the materials.
>
> I am still trying to figure out how or why the EFF was listed as a signer.
> It's true that a couple of us did have a long conversation with Jon Postel
> about the issues and the IAHC's efforts, but we were searching for the
> facts. We have yet to make a public statement as to whether or not we're
> going to sign, as, with most quickly pushed through policy, it does have
> it's flaws. You'll know if and when the EFF is going to get behind this
> when *we* issue a press release.
John Gilmore was the one that indicated that EFF is ready to sign.
>
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>
Hank Nussbacher
