On Jul 6, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Wire James wrote:
McTim
Thanks for quoting the RFC. However, just a quick reminder, while in
school, we were taught about evolution. What may not have been
anticipated at the start of this whole internet thing is probably
taking center stage. While the RFC may have been ideal for the
circumstances 15 years ago, alot of water has passed under the
bridge and the importance that these TLDs carry today can no longer
be under-estimated. While the principle of the RFC still applies
today, it should also be revised to integrate not only individuals
managing but also organisations. I dont see what is hard there
especially if it is the very internet community asking for this
change. If democracy be the virtue of what we do, then we can always
agree to modify what one man or a few select people envisaged
decades ago shouldnt be a problem at all.
There is a very clear and open process for getting RFCs updated.
Infact you can author a new draft, submit it to the IETF and get the
relevant WGs to discuss it and possibly adopt it if there is
consensus. ranting on this and other mailing lists will not change
the RFC.
My proposal is that lets engage UCC as civil society or private
sector and see to it that we achieve a middle ground on the issues
where our fears are manifesting.
I find your trust in UCC very amusing. While many of the people in UCC
are very nice as individuals and are even friends to many of us, we
must not forget that they are employed by UCC which is a government
body that MUST obey the instructions and orders of its political
masters. So when you propose to allow the regulator a lot of control
over an internet resource like the ccTLD, you are in effect allowing
the politicians to them they report to control the resource.
Personally the idea of allowing an politicians control over something
like this is scary.
We've seen what happens to free speech and open access to internet
resources when the government of the day is given too much control
over the internet. CHina and Iran are quite a clear example. I really
do not see what would stop some zealous political apparatchik in the
house at Nakasero from giving instructions to disable fdc.orug or
jeema.or.ug during presidential campaigns... and no amount of
apologies afterwards and dummy commissions would make any difference
anyway! For those who would want to claim that those people would then
simply go and register another domain in the com, net or org TLDs, you
must consider that if a site becomes sufficiently popular, getting the
information out to all the people who were previously using it is not
a simple task.
As for fears manifesting, I haven't yet seen any of these fears that
are being talked about manifesting. All I see is a lot of speculation
on what ifs..
Noah.
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