Re: International Internet Commission

[pablo <pc@nextweb.com>]

Bob Allisat wrote:
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>      Quoted from  <http://www.lglobal.com/~allisat/altRFC.html>
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> >4.1 The Creation of the International Internet Commission
> >
> >  IANA is the organization currently holding the task of regulating
> >  Top Level Domain Names. In days gone by a small, informal group
> >  acting with the trust of a relatively small internet community could
> >  handle most TDL business quite adequately. With the massive on rush of
> >  global interest and participation this is no longer the case. IANA must
> >  be dissolved and a much more public, democratic, UN Chartered organization
> >  - the international Internet Commission - set up in it's place.
> >
> >  Within six months from the acceptance of this RFC IANA will be dis-
> >  banded. Previous to that date an International Internet Commission
> >  founding convention will be convened. This convention will occur
> >  monthly til the turn-over. It's members will be drawn from UN member
> >  governments, Internet businesses, Internet User Groups, Civil and
> >  Human Rights organizations and interested others. All meetings will
> >  be held in public and all documents wil be presented electronically
> >  to everyone.
> >
> >  This convention will:
> >
> >  a) Write a constitution and bylaws pursuant to the
> >     the UN Declaration on Human Rights entrenching
> >     democratic due process, regular elections, terms
> >     of office, conditions for recall and impeachment etc.
> >
> >  b) Eliminate all direct or hidden funding from national
> >     governments or military and intelligence departments
> >     thereof and  corporations or organizations except for
> >     license fees to IIC for TLD holdings services. Ancilary
> >     funding for the IIC through the UN will be arranged as
> >     well
> >
> >  c) establish a central, global location outside the United
> >     States in a nuetral, democratic nation. I suggest TORONTO.
> >
> >   4.1. Delegation
> >
> >      The International Internet Commission (IIC) will be responsible
> >      for the overall coordination and management of the Domain Name
> >      System (DNS), and especially the delegation of portions of the
> >      name space called top-level domains. Most of these top-level
> >      domains are two-letter country codes taken from the ISO standard
> >      3166.
> >

I dont know about the rest of you but the thought that to register a
domain I would have to deal with a comission of the United Nations
scares the living daylights out of me. Lets remember how this got
started and why it has been a huge success. It was all because the
governments were kept out of it and by the time they realized what was
going on this took on a life of its own. 
> >      The International Internet Commission (IIC) will be responsible
> >      for IP number allocation and other international regulatory
> >      issues.
> >
> >      Internet Registries (IR) are selected and designated to handled
> >      the bulk of the day-to-day administration of the Domain Name
> >      System. Applications for new top-level domains are handled by
> >      the Internet DNS Names Review Board (IDNB), a committee to be
> >      established by the IIC.
> >
> >      The application process to create a new TLD is described in
> >      another memo. The following policy applies to all TLDs.
> >
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I don't know about the rest of you but having to deal with a commision
of the United Nations scares the living daylight out of me. Let's take a
step back and remenber why this experiment of the Internet has worked
out so well. It because this had nothing to do with politicis or
governments. Yes it started as a govement funded project but it was left
to be until it grew to such a dimention that it had a life of its own.
Do you think we could have gotten anything done if this would have
started as a UN project!!!! I don't think so. When you involve the U.N.
you involve politics and governments many times take positions that have
no relevance to the issue at hand, many of these actions are purely
intended to send signals. Do we want to be caught in the middle of these
fights. I would suggest caution whe walking down this road.