who elected Brian kahin king of the internet?

[Jim Fleming]

On Thursday, June 26, 1997 3:00 PM, Gordon Cook[SMTP:cook at NETAXS.COM] wrote:
<snip>
@ your comment.  get one thing clear, bradner, bush and curran and kim have
@ more than adequate ability to plan arin without an y help from me.   flame
@ off.


You failed to mention the most important person, Don Telage,
the former President of Network Solutions, Inc.

Don was in charge of Network Solutions, Inc. when the $50
domain charging was pushed past the NSF in 1995.

Don is also the author of the NSI plan that has derailed
the IAHC plan.

Don was replaced by Gabe Battista at Network Solutions, Inc.
in November 1996. Since that time the necessity for ARIN has
increased even though the shape of IP addresses have not
changed.

It is unclear what roll the Network Solutions, Inc. employees
will have in ARIN. I have heard both views, that they will be
on the Board and eventually replaced, while others claim
the NSI people will run ARIN. This has never been made clear.

Another point that has never been made clear is whether
the NSI employees will remain as NSI employees and have
their cake and eat it too. If NSI makes an IPO as some
claim will occur as soon as ARIN is put at arms length,
then ARIN people may want to remain at NSI to cash in
on that opportunity.

It is sort of too bad that ARIN does not have a Board that
does not tie it to NSI. Then it would be easier for the Board
to make independent decisions. Of course, if ARIN is a
device designed to provide jobs for NSI people that are not
into the .COM, .NET, and .ORG battle then obviously ARIN
will be largely with NSI people and will be located at the
old space just vacated by NSI domain registration people.

The ARIN Board will eventually have to address these
issues. I suppose they have until March of 1998 and
maybe are hoping that the domain name chaos will cloud
all of the issues.


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"Donald N. Telage, Ph.D, Senior Vice President at Network Solutions
Inc.since January 1995 following its acquisition by Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC). He has grown NSI into a key
Internet company and the world technology leader in Internet
Registration services. His prior experience with SAIC, from 1986
to 1995, involved a progression in executive management
culminating with the position of Senior Vice President managing
the Telecommunications Technology Operating Group, which he
started. While at GTE from 1980 to 1985, he held a variety of
systems engineering positions, both technical and management,
involving data communications systems design. Prior to 1980,
Dr. Telage was a faculty member in mathematics and computer
science at several universities, and conducted parallel research
programs. He has become active in the governance community
of the Internet, and he is a frequent speaker on matters of
governance and administration of Internet infrastructure."

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation