At 12:07 PM 8/4/99 -0700, Sheffo, Joe wrote:
>Attached is Chairman Bliley's letter of July 28. Please feel free to
>contact me if you have any questions or would like comments from someone
>with ICANN.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Joseph S. Sheffo
>415-923-1660
Sure, ask them why they havn't aswered Jonothon Zittrain's
question in over a month despite being asked half a dozen times.
And ask how this jives with Eshters recent quote to Nader "we
respond when we're asked a question"
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Subject: [IFWP] "When we are asked direct questions we answer them." - E.
Dyson.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:52:14 -0400 (EDT)
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28 days and counting...
>Esther, Mike, Joe,
>
>Is there any particular ICANN view on efforts to set up alternative root
>systems? I'd figured that ICANN would be neutral on it--it's got a mandate
>to (eventually, if all proceeds a particular way) maintain and manage the
>contents of the legacy IANA root, without regard to whatever other systems
>may be in development. Others worry that ICANN would view alternative
>roots as hostile challenges to its authority.
>
>If there's no ICANN policy on it, do you have views on it in your
>respective capacities? Thanks! ...Jonathan
>
>At 05:39 PM 7/3/99 , Richard Sexton wrote:
>>At 05:07 PM 7/3/99 -0400, Jonathan Zittrain wrote:
>> >purely neutral with respect to it: "We just manage the old IANA root; set
>> >up your own if you like and God bless!" ...JZ
>>
>>You're closer to them than we are Jonothon, why don't you ask them.
>>
>>Frankly I expect rhetoric out of them: "renegade", "pirate",
>>"anarchist" and so on and so forth.
>>
>>
>>--
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>>"They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."
>
>
>Jon Zittrain
>Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
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