[ncdnhc-discuss] RESOLUTION 102 (Rev. Marrakesh, 2002) (fwd)

[Hendrik Rood]

At 13:44 14/10/02 -0500, Alejandro Pisanty - DGSCA y FQ, UNAM wrote:
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>RESOLUTION  102  (Rev. Marrakesh, 2002)
>Management of Internet domain names and addresses
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>The Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication
>Union ( Marrakesh, 2002),

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As interpretation is often difficult. It is more helpfull to look at the 
effects.
I see three of them:

1. The ITU-staff is now able to set up a budget for this type of activities 
in the forthcoming years.
2. An intervention with a "command to abstain" as happened by the USA on 
the involvement of ITU in the IAHC/gTLD-MoU is not easily possible now this 
resolution has passed.
3. ITU Plenipotentary is chartering the ITU to act as a forum for global 
public policy issues with regards to names and addresses.

Off course there is something peculiar in this types of resolutions as it 
might also be applied to other name and number spaces used on a global 
scale but effectively controlled by a private entity instead of a (semi-) 
public group.

Also there are a number of other namespaces developed by standards bodies 
that operate outside the ITU domain. This resolution is that generic that 
it may allow ITU-staff to start working on some of them too. I just think 
about IEEE and its global unique (allthough forgeable) MAC-addresses.

Hendrik
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