[governance] alternate distribution master (was Sense of theSenate Resolution)

Patrick Vande Walle patrick at isoc.lu
Fri Oct 21 04:05:31 EDT 2005


McTim said the following  on 20/10/2005 22:03:

>hello Milton,
>
>On 10/20/05, Milton Mueller <Mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>
>>Not a very convincing argument. ISOC and IAB are obviously competitors
>>in the power struggle with ITU,
>>    
>>
>
>but the ITU agreed, with them.  My sense on this (no empirical
>evidence) was that the ITU recognised that running nameservers was not
>their core biz, and didn't want to get into this particular biz. 
>  
>
You are right. 

<speaking with my ISOC hat> I would not depict the relation of ISOC/IETF
and ITU as one of competition. There are regular contacts between both
orgs, in an effort  to coordinate the development of new standards.
Obviously,  we have some significant differences in opinion in the
governance area, but on the standardization side things are smoother.

Patrick Vande Walle


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