<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>McTim,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div>As a former ICANN board member, let me say that reality is much more complicated than just saying that "<span>The DoC does not have control over them", in reference to the 12 organizations that run the A-M root servers. Please see </span><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements">http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements</a> and scroll down to the IANA contract.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Katim</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> africann@afrinic.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 6, 2012 10:28 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] ITU<br> </font> </div> <br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv394739897"><br><br><div class="yiv394739897gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ben Fuller <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:abutiben@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:abutiben@gmail.com">abutiben@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv394739897gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div>The Department of Commerce has control over the root servers, </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think that the 12 organisations that run A-M might think about it differently, they are:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.verisigninc.com/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">Verisign</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.isi.edu/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">USC-ISI</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cogentco.com/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">Cogent</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.umd.edu/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">UMD</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.arc.nasa.gov/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">NASA-ARC</a><span style="font-size: medium;
font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.isc.org/" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Tinos; ">ISC</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nic.mil/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">DOD-NIC</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.arl.army.mil/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">ARL</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.autonomica.se/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">Autonomica</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ripe.net/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">RIPE</a><span
style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.icann.org/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">ICANN</a><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; "> · </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wide.ad.jp/" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Tinos; ">WIDE</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The DoC does not have control over them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="yiv394739897gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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