Re: WCIT outcome?

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 1/1/2013 12:31 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Also, it is exactly because ITU was in charge of resource allocations
> such as radio spectrum and top-level POTS dialling codes that it was
> a very plausible potential home for IANA in 1997-8, before ICANN was
> created. Some of the ITU people who were active in that debate were just
> as active in the preparation for WCIT in 2012.


Just to avoid any misconstruction here:

      While there might have been a plausible case to be made, for 
having the ITU house the IANA functions, I believe there was no 
(serious) pursuit of that alternative at the time.

Around that time, the ITU did have a representative who participated in 
the ill-fated pre-ICANN IAHC effort (of which I was a part, including 
editor of its proposal).

But the IAHC only had the very narrow scope of suggesting a few gTLDs to 
add.  It had no formal part in the much larger question of finding a 
home for IANA.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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