Re: Internet Governance

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Michael and all,

  Good points here.  I wonder what Rick Wesson's view is here.  But I
suppose he will say the same thing to you as he has others.  You don't
have a stake in these issues.  This would be a typical response from
him.  It is such a dam shame!  :(

  But I like your points here.  They have been made in diffrent terms
several times befor however, to little avail.

michael_roetto wrote:
> 
> An interesting thought struck me   when reading about the brew-ha-ha over
> the gTLD-MoU.  Clearly, the Internet is becoming a political matter. That
> means not only are politicians now aware of the net, but the discussion
> within the technical community itself is now largely taking place in
> political terms.  Witness the fight over the domain-name space as an
> example of this.
> 
> If this 'politicization' continues can anything but DNS fragmentation result?
> 
> My thought is this: in our system of government it is accepted that the
> military (another potent force) should be subject to civilian oversight.
> Would the Internet community also be willing to accept 'civilian' oversight
> in order to avert the DNS crisis? i.e., benevolent oversight from outside
> the technical community?
> 
> Does the new POC really represent all the stakeholders in the DNS and the
> larger governance debate? (I don't buy the argument that the gTLD-MoU is
> purely an operational concern) Would some combination of technical and
> non-technical oversight better provide for the future of the network? Maybe
> if governance and operational issues were de-linked  and delegated to the
> proper organizations, the Internet could progress in a more controlled
> fashion.
> 
> -michael
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