Re: U.S. Homeland Security dept, ICANN, and the root servers

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

> Steve Bellovin wrote:
> > http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0403/040103td1.htm
"Obviously, ICANN and NTIA ...have a play in this. But when we look at it 
as it relates to homeland security's new information-protection piece, [the 
Homeland Security Department] has a play in it as well," Schmidt said.

"What we want to do is look at the role ICANN has to play and how it 
relates to the day to day operations of what we are doing. They are working 
on an annual basis as opposed to a ... real-time basis," he said.


I admire such unilateral expressions of over-arching exclusive interest,
and I guess I should be grateful for the US government being so helpful in
wanting to run the Internet. Somehow 'grateful' is not what springs to my
obviously alien and foreign mind, but I'm sure I will be informed of the error
of my ways sooner or later.