Additional Comments of Stephen J. Page

[usdh@mail.ccnet.com (steve)]

July 28, 1998

TO: Dr. Jon Postel, IANA
FROM: Stephen J. Page

Dear Dr. Postel,
	In the continuing spirit of discussion for shaping the
	formation of the Corporation, I offer the following additional
comments to the ones which I have already made.
	If IANA is a trade organization representing the categories of
special interest groups, or stakeholders, what is required of the Names
Council?
	Domain names are words or syllables (elements of a particular
language), that are stored in a form readable by a computer
(electromagnetic energy in a root server zone or DNS server zone) whose
organized trade groups (IETF, IAB, ARIN/RIPE/APNIC, etc.)are
stakeholders.
	Domain names are meant to be useful to the individuals who
	actually use the Net to obtain information from sources which
list themselves by domain name for easy (or difficult) location by
using a particular name. This listing is the first step in commercial
transactions (the gathering of information).
	Without sellers of information organizing themselves by name to
	be found (by domain name) or without buyers of information who
use their eyes to absorb it after finding it using their brain or a
search engine, there is no reason for the New Corporation to exist,
because the computers have no information to transmit.
	Therefore, the New IANA exists purely and simply, to serve the
	growing Internet user population.
	Since domain names exist for the user, can the New IANA which
at present represents ONLY trade interests of groups organized to serve
the user, represent the user too?  Is this a conflict of interest?
	If the ORSC organizes itself into a structure of operational
councils, with only an afterthought given to providing the users with a
"voice" in its open process (there are 100 million or thereabouts users
and 5.9 Billion potential more users), can it truly represent
individuals on the Names Council?
	Isn't there something missing?

Stephen J. Page
MBA OD BSc
T: 925-454-8624