Re: [Ianaplan] control and negotiation (was Re: draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-02 working group last call)

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

David Conrad wrote:
> Richard,
>
> On Nov 6, 2014, at 6:11 AM, Richard Hill <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> which is
>>> what is actually being proposed: they have property, and some are
>>> proposing that they have to give it to us without compensation.
>> As others have pointed out, ICANN took it from others without compensation.
> Could you provide your evidence to back up this accusation of theft?
>
>

Nobody said theft.  At one point I think I said "staked a claim." 
Different thing.

What's been questioned is the process by which ownership/control of the 
IANA trademark and iana.org domain ended up with ICANN - given that they 
were first used by ISI, and nominally at the behest of US Government.

My guess is that this was just done as a matter of operational 
expedience, that has taken us into the realm of "possession is nine 
tenths of the law."

The question on the table is one of where is the most effective place 
for such ownership and control to lie in a post-transition world.

Miles Fidelman

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