Background Materials:

• Conference on Coordination and Administration of the Internet, September 8-10, 1996 at: http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/cai.html.
• Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, Working Group on Intellectual Property, Interoperability and Standardshttp://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/acicip.html.
• FNCAC Resolution of May 23, 1995:

  2. It is urgent that the FNC should study what Internet-wide committees and organizations are necessary for the successful operation of the Internet both during and after its transition to commercial providers. This study should be done in consultation with both domestic and international network service providers. Some of the necessary bodies may already exist and others may need to be chartered; in both cases it is important to ascertain who will charter and fund them, and to whom they will report. It is particularly important for the FNC to recommend the extent to which the government in its role as provider of research and educational networking should be involved with these entities. Some examples of relevant issues are:

  a) Assignment of address space and domain names as currently done by IANA,

  b) Network protocol development and other IETF activities,

  c) Network operations coordination as previously done by the NSF.

  d) The future need for a new addressing architecture and global routing system as the existing system approaches its limits.