There is no Internet Governance involved with ICANN, except for the hidden agenda of gaining control of Information Distribution by means of contracts binding users of DNS names to control by the name "delegators" who in fact have no natural reason to be controlling what people do with their names.
ICANN's hidden agenda is a power grab, not Governance. Governance is not based on the concept of CONTROL. It is based on the concept of setting social rules of conduct, which hopefully do not require squads of enforcers. ICANN is trying to build an enforcement squad for its "rules". ORSC is trying to build a self enforcing set of rules for the TLD providers community, based on enlightened self interests of all the involved parties. This is more or less what controls the IP Backbone, and the associates ISPs without a central controller to manage the enforcers. Cheers...\Stef At 1:03 AM -0700 3/18/02, Ken Freed wrote: >Wasn't the original idea a decentralized network that could survive >a nuke attack? Should decentralization of the root enourage >decentralizalization of governance? > -- ken > > >>If a great thunderbolt from heaven descended upon ICANN and took > >>out 13 DoC controlled root servers, would your zones still work? > > > >Yes, absolutely. That's one of the major motivating factors for what > >we're doing, and in fact, if you adopt the recommended practice of > >running your own private root server [1] then the ORSC servers could > >get taken out by that same thunderbolt and everything would still > >work for us. "root servers" are a minor convenience, not at all >a >strict necessity. > > > >[1] http://cr.yp.to/dnsroot.html or http://support.open-rsc.org > > > >I do this on my home Windows box - you don't need unix to do this. > > > >-- > > Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] > > A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or > > for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used > > in a bad sense. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
