<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:15 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><snip></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
authorisation process, in the meantime, we should ask, say 3 of the
US root operators to give up their ownership in favour of three
RIRs.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>First, you might want to ask the 4 RIRs who are not root-ops if any of them have the means to take over a rootserver operation.</div><div><br></div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Let us take such a common statement to all possible forums -
including to ICANN ( which I know will simply rub off its hands).
Let it be adopted as a soft resolution/ rec by many parties at the
IGF, etc etc. Let us lobby with the US gov, and other govs,
including EU etc..... this is the kind of thing civil society does.
And IGC is basically a civil society forum. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>so are the RIRs IMO, but I know you disagree. </div><div><br></div><div>You misunderstand the dynamic here. ICANN/IGF/EU don't have any say in this matter whatsoever. You need to go to the root operators themselves and ask nicely if they will cooperate in this endeavor. But first you need to have a home for these rootservers that you propose to move, and well-funded homes to boot!</div>
<div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>