[governance] NTIA announcement on JPA

John Levine icggov at johnlevine.com
Wed Apr 2 22:26:39 EDT 2008


>Bret, while agreeing with what you say, and with John Levine's analysis that
>this was to be expected, it doesn't alter the fact that ICANN will never be
>viewed as an independent global organisation

Quite right.

> and its role in internet governance will never be seen to be
> legitimate, until it is fee of the JPA.

Maybe I'm unduly myopic, but for ICANN's faults, I don't see that they
have any trouble persuading everyone who matters that their DNS root
and their IP allocations are legitimate.

R's,
John

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