Richard,
> Would I be wrong then in taking your positon to be "IP addresses should
> be managed by a technical process, while domain names should be managed
> by a political process"?
I do not necessarily feel political processes are the best mechanism to manage
the DNS, rather I'd say political processes are appropriate for the creation
of the policies by which the DNS is managed.
> It seems to me, so far that professional politicians have had their
> way with the DNS and the, as you say "people affected" have had
> pretty mush no say at all.
ICANN is still new. I remain hopeful.
Rgds,
-drc
