Subject: Interesting new international non-profit
Curt Priest (cpriest@juno.com)
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:22:34 EDT
To: ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG Subject: Interesting new international non-profit Message-Id: <19980505.122207.2383.5.cpriest@juno.com> From: cpriest@juno.com (Curt Priest) Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:22:34 EDT
Title: White House to Release 'Net Plan
Source: New York Times (AP-Breaking News)
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Internet-Management.html>
Author: The Associated Press
Issue: Internet Regulation
Description: The Clinton administration plans to release its final
proposal to end the government's role as "data traffic cop" on the
Internet within the next two weeks, said the White House. The plan will
hand the majority of management over to an international non-profit
group that has yet to be formed. The changes will be "virtually
transparent" to users but will radically change how the "burgeoning"
Internet is organized. Ira Magaziner, the White House senior policy
advisor responsible for the changeover, told an Internet conference in
NY yesterday that the final proposal is expected to be finished within
two weeks but may be completed as soon as next week. The government's
contract with Network Solutions Inc., the Herndon-VA based company that
is currently responsible for assigning addresses on the Web, was
extended for six months past its March 31st expiration date. There are
no provisions for another contract extension.
[from Benton]
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