On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Wayne D. Correia wrote:
At 7:40 PM +0300 4/10/97, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
No one has mentioned anything about adding new root nameservers. Of the over 25 signatories (so far), MCI is just one. UUnet, Digital, France Telecom, EFF, are others that come to mind. The IAHC was selected by IAB, IANA, ISOC, INTA, WIPO, ITU and NSF. The entire discussion was held in public covering 8000 emails over a period of 3 months. You can see all details at www.iahc.org including the MoU that will be signed at the end of April inGeneva at the ITU. No one is adding root servers and gTLDs as they wish. Please do not go by what you read in 3 paragraph newspaper articles since much of what is stated is inaccurate. Go to the site and go thru all the materials.
I am still trying to figure out how or why the EFF was listed as a signer. It's true that a couple of us did have a long conversation with Jon Postel about the issues and the IAHC's efforts, but we were searching for the facts. We have yet to make a public statement as to whether or not we're going to sign, as, with most quickly pushed through policy, it does have it's flaws. You'll know if and when the EFF is going to get behind this when *we* issue a press release.
John Gilmore was the one that indicated that EFF is ready to sign.
_______________________________________________________________________ Wayne D. Correia Electronic Frontier Foundation tel: +1.415.436.9333 <wayne@eff.org> 1550 Bryant Street fax: +1.415.436.9993 San Francisco, CA 94103 USA <http://www.eff.org>
Hank Nussbacher