[8763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Tue Apr 22 19:30:28 1997
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:28:18 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:02:56 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> The European Community wants the whole thing negotiated, decided and run
> by government bureaucrats. They are *NOT* pleased that the IAHC has
> attempted an end-run around their bureaucratic fiat in Brussels. So I
> suppose this is a choice as well; shall we call it the Brussels round of
> the GATT, negotiations expected to be finalized sometime in 2008. :-(
s/Community/Commision/g possibly.
I believe the general concensus from those who are involved with naming
issues in Europe was that IAHC is rather rushed, and that *certain* of
the elements therein were not particularly well thought out.
I can't think of anyone not in a government/EC influenced body who *does*
want the thing run by govt beurocrats - certainly not in the UK where
I and others have just spent the last 18 months trying to avoid this happen
to .uk.
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks (and NOMINET non-exec director)
