Re: Democratically Elected Management for the New Registries !!!

[durrell@innocence.com (Bryant Durrell)]

Bob Allisat writes:
>  Problem:
> 
>          ISOC or any of these other bodies do not have the right to
>          run with anything let alone the Internet.

I promise I'll only say this once...

(Not that it hasn't been said before.)

ISOC has precisely the power that the people who run the millions of
computers that make up the Internet give it.  The same goes for the
IANA, the IAHC, and yes, even the Alternic.  If you can convince UUNet,
AOL, Sprint, MCI, BBN, et al to pay attention to you, then you have as
much power as ISOC.  We're a voluntary cooperative out here.

The question that you should be asking is *why* people listen to Jon
and Perry and Don and Hank and Paul, and why they don't listen to Bob
and Jim and Eugene.  There are really two basic possibilities here.
You can assume that it's because of an old boy's network, force of
habit, and the like; or you can assume that it's because certain people
have proven that they're competent to provide top-level direction for
global Internet issues.  And continue to prove this.

Either way, flaming the IAHC is not going to change minds.  Nor, to be
blunt, are you going to win any supporters by taking the position 
that national governments should control what root servers I use.  I
do not want to be told how to configure my machine, thank you very 
much, and I will protest violently if you do so.

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