From Henning.Grote@telekom.de  Wed Oct  7 01:50:29 1998
From: "Grote, Henning" <Henning.Grote@telekom.de>
To: "'iana@iana.org'" <iana@iana.org>,
        "'dnspolicy@ntia.doc.gov'" <dnspolicy@ntia.doc.gov>
Subject: Deutsche Telekom endorsing IANA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:49:00 +0200 
Importance: high
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Return-Receipt-To: "Grote, Henning" <Henning.Grote@telekom.de>

Dear Dr. Postel, ladies and gentlemen,

please find attached our brief statement with which we want to express our
endorsement for the submitted proposal as of Oct. 2. It is a MS Word 97
file.

With best regards,
Henning Grote
__________________________________

Dipl.-Ing. Henning Grote
CTO NIC
Deutsche Telekom AG
Center for Datacommunication
D-26119 Oldenburg
Germany

Phone: +49 441 234-5667
Fax: +49 441 27463
Mobile: +49 171 497 8112
eMail: henning.grote@telekom.de
__________________________________


(MS Word 97 converted to ASCII)

Ladies and gentlemen,
 
Deutsche Telekom AG believes in a fair and open competition on a global
marketplace that constantly leads to the development of new products and
services for the good of both: consumer and business.
 
Concerning internet-related issues this is a major force which drives Deuts
che Telekom to continue to emphatically support internet self-governance.
 
We think that the most international focus and the diversity of the contrib
uting parties in the recent processes that led to the submitted proposal of
 Dr Jon Postel showed impressively the ability of the private sector to act
 purposefully on a global basis.
 
Beside the fact that we are not completely satisfied with every single deta
il of the proposal we found that most of the open questions can be dealt wi
th by the interim board or other operational entities of due-to-found ICANN
.
 
Of course, we are aware of the extreme care that has to be taken when alter
ing this global system - as it was customary up to now. But nevertheless: t
here is a need to proceed now to preserve the momentum and the spirit of co
operation we have these days.
 
Hence, we explicitly want to support the IANA proposal as submitted on Octo
ber 2, 1998 by Dr Jon Postel. We recognize it as a stable and trustworthy b
asis and a sound starting point for our future work. 
 
 
Henning Grote
CTO NIC
Deutsche Telekom AG
Center for Datacommunication
 
D-26119 Oldenburg
Germany
