Re: Special Report on Internet Governance Published

[Jay@Iperdome.com]

At 09:25 AM 8/5/97 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>At 10:13 PM 8/4/97 -0400, Jay@Iperdome.com wrote:
>>We need to set up Global Internet Governance *right away* to 
>>avoid nasty name space congestion?  
>>
>>I agree that solutions to name space questions are long 
>>overdue, however, Global Internet Governance is too important 
>>a topic to rush into an arrangement that all Netizens will have 
>>to live with for years to come.
>
>Jay, where did you ever see among the IAHC/iPOC papers the words "Global
>Internet Governance (GIG)"?  

If the gTLD-MoU is accepted as the authority to determine what is 
and what is not appropriate for the name space, it will establish
the first and only politically authoritative body for the Internet 
that is trans-national in influence.

Any organization that determines policies that *are* trans-national 
in nature must be acknowledged and delegated that authority by the 
sovereign nations that acquiesce to its policies.

Happily, no governments have yet to make those consessions.  
If they did, however, once again we would be back to the gTLD-MoU 
establishing Global Internet Governance.

>At some point GIG will come along and fold into it the entire gTLD issue.
>GIG will tackle pornography, trade, anonymity, spam, etc.  If you thing the
>gTLD work is GIG, let me assure you that it isn't even close.  Go handle the
>items listed above and help form a GIG.  

Given the current power vacuum, it is very likely that whatever
precedent is set for domain names will apply to these topics
as well.

>gTLDs is an operational issue and
>has very little to do with GIG.

gTLDs are *not* an operational issue.  In fact, the only
operational issue that the gTLD-MoU addresses is a shared
registry model.  If operational aspects were so important,
I suspect that the shared registry software would be written, 
tested, and debugged by now.  Given that it isn't even 
specified yet, I think that claims of operational 
issues are a trojan horse.

Once again, Global Internet Governance is too important
to leave to the IANA, ISOC, ITU, and WIPO, no matter how
honorable their intentions are.


Regards,

Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.  
404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com