Re: PAB nIANA facts

Masataka Ohta (mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp)
Tue, 9 Jun 98 12:04:41 JST


Sascha;

> > Then, the USG under the US law will be watching the operations...
> >
> > Is it already decided, or there is something to decide ?
>
> i have no problem having niana be based in US if other parts of the earth
> and internet stakeholders are represented on it

We can't say such niana international.

That some US-based corporation have some non-US directores does not
make the corporation an international entity.

You may have no problem to make niana US local.

Well, me either, as long as we have international IANA, in addition.

> USA have a great contribution for the internet and in this way it should
> be honored by having the dns management headquortered in US

It was a mistake of IANA (and, according to the fiction of the GP and
WP, USG) that there was not much effort paid to internationalize IANA.

As a result, IANA is not internationalized and operated solely by
US residents.

However, gTLD-MoU is the attempt of IANA (and, according to the fiction
of the GP and WP, under the administration of USG) to internationalize
IANA.

Now, it's too late for IANA (and, according to the fiction of the GP
and WP, USG) to say differently.

The past failure to internationalize IANA can't be a rational to keep
it uninternationalized US-local entity.

Masataka Ohta