Thanks Chuck for supporting my notions about the critical role of
common values in the future of Internet Coordination Management, which
I believe too many people are confusing with "goverance" of the
Internet.
>From Chuck Gomes's message Mon, 4 Jan 1999 07:22:57 -0500:
}
}Stef,
}
}Excellent stake in the ground. I would just emphasize one
}thing regarding consensus that I believe you also pointed
}out. Consensus is important with regard to universal
}interconnection but is not necessary on all issues. If we
}try to get even a rough consensus on some issues, we will
}run into a conflict with value #2, diversity.
}
}I sincerely believe with you that consensus on common values
}is the right place to start because our values should be the
}basis of all our consensus building exercises.
}
}Chuck
We do not need goverance, but we do need management of our
instituational coordination of Names, Addresses, and Protocol
Parameters.
But now, the next question is, what are we going to do about it?
I would like to mount a serious effort to find our common values in
the midst of our efforts to resolve the current DNS and ICANN mess.
Frankly, I do not see any major immediately urgent problems with
either Protocols or Addresses that cannot be resolved within the
current institutional structures which are not yet taking any
significant direction from ICANN. I do not think they need it!
So, this leaves me believing that our first priority should be to find
our common values with regard to DNS coordination management, because
DNS is in crisis over the fact that we cannot add new TLDs to the
"authoritative" root (and have not been able for the last 3 years),
and thus cannot offer any meaningful competition to NSI with its .COM,
.ORG, .NET "monopoly" which is perpetuated by the prohibiton against
adding new TLDs to the root. This "monopoly" is the root cause of the
current market structure failure which has caused the monopoly
situation to exist.
On the other hand, I have long advocated, and still advocate, that no
new TLDs should be added to the "authoritative" root until the DNS
community comes to consensus on how things should be cooperatively
managed. To add new TLDs to the root now without consusensus on
cooperative cocordiantion management, will only fracture the community
further and make consensus building even harder.
So, in my view, the key is to find the common values that all in the
DNS community agree on and then work down from there to build
consensus for a plan to establish a well managed cooperative
coordination system with processes that adhere to and follow from our
established common values.
May I ask that NSI take a position on this concept and help us all to
do the work to find our common values in the DNS community, and also
in the Internet Community. The
Among the things that I would like to see NSI do in this regard is to
establish an Internet Values Project Fund to support work on this
effort, with control of the fund placed in some appropriate
foundation, such as the one headed by Rushworth M. Kidder, the author
of "Shared Values in a Toubled World". I suggest this be done with a
plea to others who care about this to also contribute funds to the
same foundation project fund to support this work. Rushworth Kidder
is President and Founder of the The Institute for Global Ethics, and
has demonstrated he understands the issues and understands how to go
about finding Common Community Values at the appropriate meta levels.
As a test of whether this idea has support from others, I am asking
here in this message for offers of additional funding from other
sources to assure that the project enjoys wide support. Perhaps we
can even get the US Government to contribute, as I believe this
project offers the single best chance to resolve the contentious
issues standing in the way of forward progress for the US Government's
efforts to hand off its role in Managing Cooperative Coordiantion of
Internet Names, Addresses and Protocol Parameters.
For those who want to learn more about the concept behind this
proposal, you should look at the book cited above.
Best...\Stef
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