On Monday, June 08, 1998 11:45 AM, Jeff Williams[SMTP:jwkckid1 at IX.NETCOM.COM] wrote: <snip> @ @ We don't completely agree here. Rather let the Open Market Place @determine who is a board member by popular vote. @ Jeff, I think that people close to the IANA Inc. development have this under control. You might want to stay tuned to the following web page(s) for more information. <http://www.iana.org/aboutiana.html> As for the CEO of the new IANA Inc., I would remind you that the Registry Industry is a new industry. Many of the people in the industry are moving from one organization to another. With the multi-level-marketing (MLM) structure shown below, I would think that significant advancements will start happening inside of the organization to preserve continuity. IANA ARIN RIPE APNIC Note that ARIN is a notch "above" RIPE and APNIC because ARIN currently has control over the .ARPA TLD and all of the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone. I have a feeling that this will be moved to the new IANA Inc. and then ARIN will be at the same level as RIPE and APNIC. At the moment APNIC is being moved to Australia. One of the key people from RIPE is moving there to help run APNIC. I would not be surprised if other key people from RIPE do not transfer within the organizations above to take advantage of career opportunities. Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://207.32.159.1 1998 - The Year of the C+@ IS Coordinator for the AM Radio Station Registry - http://www.DOT.AM -------- Logged at Tue Jun 9 13:09:11 MET DST 1998 ---------