Daniel whatever about name registries, address registries are pretty well structured, and recognised as such, both locally and regionally. Local IRs are involved in the governance of their regional IRs and, thanks to you and your peers, there is close cooperation between the regionals and a high degree of alignment between their respective policies and procedures. There shouldn't be any great difficulty in the interim board acknowledging this and including representation from the regional address registries in the interim board. The regionals are all properly incorporated, albeir outside the USA. I'm sure you've said something like this already. Regards. Mike ----------
From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net> To: RIPE Local Internet Registries WG <lir-wg@ripe.net> Subject: Internet Governance and IANA Date: 26 May 1998 10:24
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Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:35:19 -0700 From: postel@ISI.EDU To: Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net Subject: Re: governance
An update from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
IANA is continuing to provide the neutral, central coordinating functions for the global Internet.
As we await the United States government's final statement on the "Improvement of Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses" (also known as the "Green Paper"), we are in the process of reorganizing and restructuring the IANA organization. This process will create an independent, not-for-profit corporation. The new IANA will establish separate offices from the University of Southern California and its Information Sciences Institute, where IANA is now located.
We are selecting legal representation and preparing initial bylaws and articles of incorporation. The bylaws are being constructed to allow for international representation on the board of directors by address registries, domain name registries and registrars, protocol organizations, and the user/industry community. Since the deadline for having this organized may not permit a fully representative board to be in place initially, we expect to create a transitional board who will then conduct a process to establish the first fully functioning board with world-wide representation of all constituencies.
In the spirit of community self-governance, we welcome your advice and suggestions.
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