Vint's own words about ISOC's financial condition....
From: "vint cerf" vinton.g.cerf@wcom.com
To:
"James Love" james.love@cptech.org;
"Joe Sims" jsims@JonesDay.com
Cc: "Robin
Layton" RLayton@ntia.doc.gov;"Richard Hill"richard.hill@itu.int>;
"Manon Ress"
mress@essential.org;
reform-comments@icann.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 04,
2002 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Should ISOC replace ICANN? Maybe so
"I would
suggest first discussing this with ICANN - Lynn
St. Amour is the President. ISOC
is in a somewhat fragile financial state itself and I am not sure it is up to such
an undertaking."
-- Vint
At 10:41 AM 6/4/2002 -0400, James Love wrote: :
Vint,
I personally think it might make sense to simply have ISOC
get a contract from
the GAC or ITU to run the GNSO. The ccTLD
story is something else. There is room
for further dentralization
of the TLDs,such as for example commercial and non-commerical
TLDs,
those run by governments, etc. But for the commerical gTLDs, I think it
would be cheaper and probably better to give this to an organization like ISOC, which
is international, and which has strong
pro-competition, pro-innovation and pro
free speech traditions. A contract with limited terms of reference with an international
government based body, would be a protection against mission creep. ISOC already
holds all of these international meetings anyway. Is this a crazy idea?
Jamie
PS... assuming giving the GNSO to ISOC doesn't destroy ISOC.