When Ira Magaziner, on behalf of the US government, unilaterally declared the US had the right and responsibility to "privatize" the Internet, no foreign government made any complaints that I'm aware of. In fact, I suspect they were happy to have someone to blame. Water under the bridge. On 8/2/02 11:06 AM, "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu> wrote: >> ICANN is not the controlling body for the ".". That role belongs to the >> US Dept. of Commerce. > > The US DoC may claim that role, but they have no right to it. > The Internet is international, not some plaything of the US government. > > - > This message was passed through ietf_censored@carmen.ipv6.cselt.it, which > is a sublist of ietf@ietf.org. Not all messages are passed. > Decisions on what to pass are made solely by Raffaele D'Albenzio.