As I see it, the US Government has always had control over the root and thus DNS and the creation of all TLDs. They may decide that they should not maintain control, but they are reviewing that issue in detail before doing something to screw things up. As NSI's proposal suggested, I would expect an orderly transition to be made to an appropriate, legal, international organization. Who, what and how has to be decided very carefully - not by the IANA.
Agreed. Don't you think that one of the best alternatives is the ITU?
The ITU might be a viable possibility. I wouldn't discount them. Note that the IAHC plan only makes them the place where the main gTLD database is located - not the top end of an organizational structure which manages the root and/or the TLD world. Cheers, Ray http://www.STOP-gTLD-MoU.org/ -------- Logged at Wed Oct 8 10:19:25 MET DST 1997 ---------