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To: DMaA who wrote (15864)	6/5/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: jhild	Respond to of 22053

The agency said in a statement that the ad "was never intended to cause ill feelings." I'm left wondering just what feelings it was intended to evoke then.

To: DMaA who wrote (15864)	6/8/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

U.S. Wants Private Panel to Revamp Internet System Washington, June 5 (Bloomberg) - The Clinton administration moved a step closer to turning over the job of overseeing the Internet to those who use it, calling for the formation of a private, non-profit corporation to decide on such matters as how to allocate addresses on the World Wide Web. ''The private sector from around the world will have to put together a board of directors and take on this task,'' Becky Burr, associate administrator for the National Telecommunication and Information Administration Office of International Affairs, told reporters. ''It will not be a government-chartered board. We are relying strictly on the private sector to decide how it will be set up.'' The self-appointed panel, including Internet companies, privacy experts and consumer advocates, will encourage competition on the World Wide Web and should be in place by Oct. 1, 1999, Burr said. The Clinton administration is scheduled to end its supervision of ''domains'' -- the tail ends of Internet addresses, such as ''.com'' or ''.org,'' which designate the address as a commercial or organization site -- on Sept. 30, 2000. To be sure, critics complain that the administration's plan lacks specific language to settle trademark and intellectual property disputes between people and organizations that want the same site name. ''The current process for creating and protecting effective domain names is a minefield,'' said Tom Barrett, a vice president of Boston-based Thomson & Thomson. ''These uncertainties surrounding domain names will continue to hamper the growth of the Internet as a vehicle for electronic commerce.'' Network Solutions A coalition of Internet businesses, the Association for Interactive Media, disagreed. It's ''a judicious resolution to a complicated problem, and is the best solution proposed to date that protects the interests of domain name holders, trademark owners, and the global Internet community,'' said spokesman Andy Sernovitz. For now, Herndon, Virginia-based Network Solutions Inc. has an exclusive agreement with the National Science Foundation to register ''top-level'' domain names. That contract expires Sept. 30. Today, the company's shares joined a rally of computer companies on Wall Street, soaring 21 percent to 39 1/4, a two- week high. Network Chief Executive Gabriel Battista, rather than lamenting the prospect that his company may soon have competitors, welcomed the administration's plan. It ''has a market-focused approach and recognizes the key role of the private companies in the development of the Internet,'' Battista said. With users of the World Wide Web creating 100,000 new Internet sites every hour, and the list of complaints from users growing just about as fast, the time has come for to write the rules for the 21st Century, administration officials said. ''The private sector from around the world will have put together a board of directors and take on this task,'' said Burr. ''It will not be a government-chartered board. We are relying strictly on the private sector to decide how it will be set up.'' President Bill Clinton, speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said ''100 million new users'' will log onto the Internet this year. He called on all Americans to help support his efforts to enable every U.S. school and library, from remote rural areas to the inner city, to hook into the World Wide Web. ''At this sunlit time of (U.S. economic) prosperity, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind in the dark,'' Clinton said. Today's announcement caps an 11-month effort by the U.S. Commerce Department to revamp the way companies, organizations and groups register Internet sites with ''domain'' addresses. Ira Magaziner, Clinton's top adviser for matters related to the Internet, said last month in Brussels that the U.S. government's aim is to keep the World Wide Web as free as possible from government regulation. The Internet accounts for more than a third of U.S. annual real economic growth, he said. o~~~ O