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Re: [Ianaplan] who or what is the proper authority to control the IANA domain and the trademark?

Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> Mon, 10 November 2014 02:54 UTC

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From: Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>
To: Roger Jørgensen <rogerj@gmail.com>, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>, "ianaplan@ietf.org" <ianaplan@ietf.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> In any event, we have a chance now to "place" the trademark (IANA) and
> domain (IANA.org) somewhere where it can not be easily be tempered with
> by anyone. Stability.
> 
> Whoever, or whatever it is, should be actual legal different from whoever is
> doing the actual IANA function. This is not a critic of ICANN, think the history
> show ICANN has done a good job with the IANA registry, It is more about
> settings things while everyone are happy so it can NOT be a source for
> conflict in the future. A possible conflict how unlikely we think it is now that
> can possible hurt the stability of Internet, the stability of the IANA registry.

Exactly. He hit the nail on the head. 

--MM

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