RE: [ga] FNC statement

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 04:47 PM 4/3/00 -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:

>Dave Crocker writes:
>  > At 08:16 AM 4/3/00 -0700, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>  > >The link was posted by someone else.
>  > Please cite the message that posted it.  This list has a public
>  > archive, so it should be easy to locate.
>
>OK, I looked up the reference on http://www.fnc.gov/ and this is the
>statement that I found there:
>
>         Following U.S. Government lead, the Federal Networking Council
>         (FNC) has no policy concerning the IAHC proposal. The FNC
>         Co-Chair, George Strawn, participated in the IAHC, and the FNC
>         continues to encourage open discussion on domain name
>         registration.

Cute. This is government-speak for "I'm not ready to put my career on the 
line for this by creating a supporting policy statement." The intention is 
that if the IAHC bombs, NSF was neutral (without the stigma of failure), 
but if the IAHC succeeds NSF will take the credit. Otherwise known as 
hedging a bet.

Makes you wonder just how bad it really got for the USG to actually intervene.


Best Regards,

Simon

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