[governance] USG on ICANN - no movement here

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

John and all,

  This was tried before pre ICANN it was known as the gtld-mou.
It failed than and for good reason.

John Levine wrote:

> Hi.  I'm back.
>
> >Or what about an ICANN MOU with the UN as a first step? That appeals
> >to me as something that might get traction at both ends and we could
> >support.
>
> Hmmn.  How would that be different in practice from handing it to the
> ITU?  I don't think the ITU is particularly evil, but I also don't
> think that it would be likely to do a good job overseeing the
> Internet.  The chances of something really bad happening would be much
> higher, e.g., a bunch of small countries gang up and demand that each
> country gets the same number of IP addresses, or something else that
> has superficial political appeal but would be technically disastrous.
>
> R's,
> John
>
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