The comments made by Dr. Twomey concern me as well, but in fact I don't
think he was threatening anybody, but simply state a belief, which is that
the most likely event in case of a failure of ICANN is that the whole matter
will be ruled by an international organization operating under a sort of
international agreement.
Of course he intended it as a threat. Ever since Paul took
over the NOIE organization for Alston and tried to find a
life in Aussie politics by becoming Internet relevant, he's
leveraged a string of threats. Try doing some search engine
trolling and you'll find them all.
My personal opinion is that this is exactly what is going to happen. There
is no way you can convince the governments not to step in if the ICANN
solution will fail. Whether the outcome will be an international body with
specific intergovernmental status like ITU, FAO, or other UN organizations,
or a different type of body like ICAO, InMarSat, etc., is open to debate,
but the direction seems pretty clear to me.
Roberto - this "threat" has been around for the last 20 years.
Many of us spent some of our careers dealing with it.
Under much more favorable circumstances to these players,
they tried and failed spectacularly. That's why they are
trying to reinvent themselves playing the same game. There
is no way - let me reiterate, there is no way - they could
pull it off with an aggregation of 1 million private networks,
50 million hosts, and several billion server applications
shared via tcp/ip - - which is what the Internet is.
The real threat is in the area of Internet taxation, and all
this DNS stuff is just a quid pro quo.
--tony
