>WHEREAS, the Corporation's staff and counsel have negotiated with
>the U.S. Government a Cooperative Research and
>Development Agreement (CRADA) establishing a joint research and
>development project concerning Improvements to
>Management of the Internet Root Server System to be conducted by the
>Corporation, the U.S. National Institute of Standards
>and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. National Telecommunications and
>Information Administration (NTIA);
Let's see. Behind closed doors. No public comment. Policy made by an
unelected, unaccountable, interim board. No input from the recently
constituted Root Server Advisory Committee. 9 board members with a healthy
dose of hubris.
Maybe now that Monicagate and the Kosovo call to arms have subsided,
Congress will return to its regularly scheduled programming and investigate
this NOT self-organizing, NOT bottom-up transition of Internet
administration to ICANN.
Ellen Rony Co-author
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