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On September 17,
1998, IANA
and Network
Solutions, Inc.,
jointly
published a draft proposal for a California
non-profit public benefit corporation called the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers, or ICANN, to coordinate the
administration of domain names and IP addresses.
Additional names for the new corporation, listed
below, were proposed on the IFWP.ORG
subscriber discussion list.
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Proposed
Names for the New Non-Profit
Corporation
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- Adam
Todd
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GIA:
Global Internet Administration
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- Ellen
Rony
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- GAIA
: Global Assignment Internet
Administration
- Gaia
is the name given to primordialearth, from
whence sprang the divine races. According to
Hesiod, Gaia was born immediately after Chaos
and gave birth to Uranus (the mountains) and
Pontus (the sea).In other words, Gaia was all
inclusive--a fitting metaphor for the Internet.
Gaia also, apparently, is the name Toyota has
given to one of its car models in
Japan.
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Bob
Racko
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- GAIA:
Global Administration of Internet
Assignments
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Tony
Rutkowski
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- GCIA:
Global Coordination of Internet Assignments
- GNSA:
Global Network Stability
Alliance
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- Milton
Mueller
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- IAgra:
Internet Association of Great and Ridiculous
Agruments
- Richard
Sexton proposed a title to match this
acronym:
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- Craig
Simon
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- INDAB:
Internet Delegations and Assignments
Board
- INDABA
is a Zulu word that is well-known to speakers of
English, Afrikaans, and other languages in
southern Africa. Its early meaning implied
"gathering of tribal elders." Its contemporary
meaning is equivalent to "consultative meeting,"
"problem resolution session," or the native
American "powwow." I have also seen modern
usages that suggest "large, inclusive
conference."
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- Eric
Weisberg
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- FOIA
: Fair Operating Internet
Aggregation
- In
the United States, FOIA is the acronym for
Freedom of Information Act.
- WECANN
- World Entity of Consensus Actuated Network
Navigation
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- Richard
Sexton
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- IAF:
Internet Adress Foundation
- FAW
- Fair Addressing Workshop
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Ellen
Rony
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- IONN:
International Oversight of Numbers and
Names
- IANN:
Internet Authority for Numbers and
Names
- DIANN:
Delegation of Internet Assigned Numbers and
Names
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Arnold V.
Gehring
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TALON
Corporation: Transport Authority Lock on
Names
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