[ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN Reform: role of ITU

[Dave Crocker]

At 07:28 PM 5/2/2002 +0200, Hill, Richard wrote:
>The paper by Mr. Houlin Zhao "ITU-T and ICANN Reform"

Richard, thanks for providing the pointer.


One point of clarification you are free to pass on, as you wish:

>. What is or should be ICANN's misson? This question cannot be answered 
>authoritatively at this time. ICANN's mission should take into account the 
>competencies of existing organizations such as IETF and ITU-T.

It can be, and has been, answered simply and quite some time ago.  The 
ICANN mission is clear, simple, and constrained.

 From ICANN's web page at <http://www.icann.org/general/abouticann.htm>:

>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the 
>non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP 
>address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name 
>system management, and root server system management functions

If that is not clear or complete enough, the ITU needs to explain what the 
deficiencies are.

d/

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