"A.M. Rutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 07:10 AM 7/3/99 , Jim Dixon wrote:
>>Insofar as we are talking about the imperial ICANN, the one that wants
>>to regulate the Internet, the one that is trying to obtain legal authority
>>over all IP address space and the domain name system, it is of primary
>>importance that we know who the ICANN board represents. No one living in
>>a democracy can be at all comfortable with hidden manipulations, with
>>groups of great power created by shadowy forces without any clear legal
>>authority.
>Jim,
>Great overview. It's also important to look at alternatives
>to the single world government approach that's represented
>by ICANN. The Internet arose and was successful because of
>distributed administrative models, not centralized ones.
That's not really accurate. This leaves out the role of the
Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of ARPA
in the creation and development of the Internet.
The role was one which made it possible for computer scientists
to collaborate and direct the development of the Internet keeping
foremost the scientific principles and needs.
That has gotten lost in the conception for ICANN.
The names and numbers and protocols of the Internet need to
be protected. ARPA and then IPTO was created to make that possible.
These were the models that needed to be drawn on and they have
been totally ignored.
>Even in other Internet legal areas, the emphasis is on
>mechanisms of accommodating multiple administrative
>approaches rather than proceeding with a centralized one.
>Unfortunately, the names and addresses arena was seized upon
>by traditionalists (which includes much more than the EU),
>who are enamored with the prospect of global Internet governance.
>--tony
There would never have been an Internet according to what Tony
is proposing. But the international cooperation that gave birth
to the Internet and made it possible is what is needed, not
other models. My proposal began to build on this but it was
important to learn more about the founding of ARPA and IPTO
to understand what is needed to provide the kind of protection
needed now, and I have been doing some research on this. What
I have found is of great interest.
Ronda
