http://www.alvestrand.no/icann/icann_reform.html
It's way off base, of course, as you'd expect from a hard line IETF'er. It
essentially just puts the IETF in charge with some minor concessions
in areas the IETF knows nothing about. If suffers from the same
flaws that IAHC and ICANN had, that is, the "we're in charge"
syndrome.
Even Magaziner got this part right... there needs to be "coordination";
look around at all the bits and pieces there are now and figure out
how to make them cooperate with each other. Any plan that asserts
a central authority over a naturally decentralizes system is doomed
to fail. Collaberative cooperation is the only thing that will work
and was of course the only way this network could have been and
was created.
I've also never bought into this paranoia that AOL or MS will make their
own DNS namespace. So what? In a world dominated by Windoze desktop
OS software Apple still exits and IBM sells Linux servers. Given the
anti-trust attention the US DOJ spends on both it doesn't seem likely
to be a problem to me... and who says the USG isn't in charge already?
You're kidding yorself if you don't believe it is.
But who is really in charge? The people that own the root password
to the DNS servers on the net. You can spend all day thinking of ways
to get the USG to do this or that, but as I watch my DNS traffic
saturate my connection and order a 6X bandwidth upgrade, I know what's
happening in the real world of passing packets.
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A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or
for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used
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