Or gov's get concerned enough that the ITU directs its treaty bound orgs to "take over". If gov types get concerned enough they can and will pass legislation that can, and will (with the power of law) take any and all of this away. Don't believe this can happen, look at various digital rights laws. DMCA in the US for example. Bad law can and does happen, it takes years to fix and lots of money. By dumping ICANN/IANA and walking, that could be viewed as "screwed up enough" to those on Capital Hill, Brussels, etc.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-lir-wg@ripe.net [mailto:owner-lir-wg@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Karrenberg Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:14 AM To: john@chagres.net Cc: 'David Kessens'; 'Hans Petter Holen'; 'RIPE Local IR Working Grouo' Subject: RE: [lir-wg] ICANN Reform
At 04:29 AM 10/8/2002, John M. Brown wrote:
What IMHO, believe is that should the RIR's depart, which I'm against, this would open the oppertunity for other organizations to take control.
ITU, being one of them. This would be a particularly BAD IDEA
Not unless the RIRs screw up enough to loose the confidence of their communities.
Daniel