Lynn said that the ISOC lawyer said that this is standard legal grammar for "these are the parties whose relationship the next part of the sentence describes".
I agree that it's not normal English.....
Sorry, to interrupt your important discussion about legal English grammar oddities. But it happens that today is the last day for comments to the WGIG. To formulate my own fair comments I need to be confirmed the IETF is not interested in addressing the needs they documented as they think they have adjusted for a long.
Background. There are may be today 850.000.000 non permanent web watchers and spam sufferers using their world digital ecosystem with the IETF end to end Internet application, with ICANN as an operator, and may be 50.000.000 DNs and 97.5% illegitimate DNS root calls. There are also 190 countries decided to get a return from their 25 last years efforts in reducing computer and bandwidth costs. They issued an RFP under the form of Resolutions and Points of actions. They have a last call period ending tomorrow.
When you translate their request in rough figures, they want to support within 20 years (shorter delays for choices and planning) an extended services, broad bandwidth continuity and an interpersonal brain to brains (cpu2cpu) ubiquitous and 24/365 space of secure, reliable, fast privacy protected multi-exchanges. One can guesstimate 20.000.000.000 stations, 7.000.000.000 users (or more as individuals have home/office systems), probably one or two terra names and more numbers and RFIDs, using 7620 languages (ISO last current count), 20.000 dialects (last non-ISO very reduced count), for 42650 business areas (last UN count) most with their proximity risk contained networks, in full respect both of national, business, personal privacy, empowerment and sovereignty and of support of States regalian services, at a cost and an intergovernance complexity the developing countries can foot, so they can bridge the digital divide without fearing an e-colonization.
Support to every bidder is available by the 167 years old, Governments created, ITU.Competition is at least by the users' own . "InterNAT & co" solution.
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