FTC to Resolve Domain Issues

[Jim Fleming]

On Monday, June 09, 1997 9:49 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
@ On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:40:58 CDT, Jim Fleming said:
@ > 
@ > The U.S. Federal Trade Commission just announced
@ > that it will be starting a process to resolve the domain
@ > name issues. Evidently, they plan to start with a clean
@ > slate and of course their charters will guide their actions.
@ 
@ 1) Government agencies start processes all the time.  Sometimes
@ they even get someplace.  However, the quotes you make have
@ nothing specific to say regarding the FTC and domain names 
@ (to begin with, the question of whether the FTC even has the
@ right or authority to meddle in an international issue).
@ 
@ 2) What the <expletive> does this have to do with the NAIPR list?
@ 
@ 				Valdis Kletnieks
@ 				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
@ 				Virginia Tech
@ 
@ 

Actually, from what I have now been told, many government
agencies will be involved and the White House is helping
to support the activities, because the buck stops there.
The FTC will be one of many agencies helping to get to
the bottom of these issues.

The allocation of "Internet Resources" is the real issue
that has to be fully investigated. Solutions which are fair
and impartial need to be worked out by people that have
been elected to handle such tasks.

Internet resources include Top Level Domain names and
IP allocations. ARIN (and NAIPR) are covered under IP
allocations.

One solution might be to turn IP allocations over to the
FCC. Another possibility might be the Office of Spectrum
Management. Others think the DOD is the organization
that should step forward. At the moment, the FNC has the
most to say about all of these issues and the FNCAC.

References:

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/osmhome.html
http://www.fnc.gov

@@@@  http://aska.glocom.ac.jp/resa/APPLe/DC_APNIC.html

David Conrad, Asian-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC),
APPLe Workshop, Montreal, 28 June 1996

"Traditionally the U.S. Department of Defense is seen as
owning everything. They delegate it to the organization called
the Federal Networking Counsel, which delegated it to the IANA
(Internet Assigned Number Authority), the assigned numbers
authority, who also delegated -- no one wants to handle this
stuff, so they keep delegating it downward. (laughter) They
delegate it to the InterNIC, and then, I guess, in '90 there was
a RFC issued that actually created a concept of regional NICs.
In that RFC, it defined RIPE NCC, and APNIC. And InterNIC also
would handle local Internet registries, like ISPs and also end
users directly."

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
http://www.Unir.Corp