Re: Structuring IANA: A Few Questions to Be Answered

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Dave and all,

Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 05:50 PM 7/18/98 -0700, steve wrote:
> >        If one uses the idea of "governance" as in Constitutional
> >governance as a framework, we need to look at setting things up in a way to
> >protect the rights and freedoms of individuals FIRST, while serving the
>
> Alternatively, one can observe that IANA does not provide governance and
> that, therefore, discussion of governance is not relevance to the current
> evolution of IANA.

  Unfortunately this does not jive with the nIANA's own Web pages with respect
to
their bylaws (See www.iana.org/bylaws.htm).

>
>
> If we focus on IANA as an agency for some basic administration efforts,
> rather than expand the scope of the discussion and IANA to encompass new
> and challenging issues of Internet governance, we will do two things at
> once:  1)  we will make it at least possible to get the job done in the
> time available, 2) we will keep our efforts productive rather than
> theoretical and diffuse.

  Conversely if we don't keep an eye on what the IANA is proposing in their
bylaws for the nIANA we may end up with an organization that is closed and
non-responsive to the needs and requirements of the Stakeholder community.

>
>
> d/
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 regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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