Re: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Peter and all assembly members,

  Not only do your ccTLD colleagues agree with you, so do I
and a huge number of our members, as well as many on this
forum, from what I can tell.

Peter de Blanc wrote:

> It is truely amazing that something once  done by volunteers, like
> building and co-ordinating the operation of the global Internet prior
> to, say 1995 or 1996, now costs over US $ 5 million per year to sustain
> a bureaucracy that did not exist prior to commercialization of the
> Internet.
>
> What is even MORE amazing is that the US $ 5 million  is just the tip of
> the iceberg. Frankly, I do not see the need to pay so much for so
> little. Like there is not even a QoS guarantee on the operation of the
> root server system.
>
> Many of my ccTLD colleagues agree with me.
>
> Peter de Blanc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Karl
> Auerbach
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:47 AM
> To: Alexander Svensson
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement
>
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Alexander Svensson wrote:
>
> > ICANN Staff Draft: Toward a Statement of the ICANN Mission (7 March
> > 2002)
> > http://www.icann.org/general/toward-mission-statement-07mar02.htm
> ....
> > What ICANN Does
>
> Which is quite a different matter than what ICANN ought to do.
>
> I won't be nearly as prolix as ICANN's staff.  One could presume that
> their salaries are based on the word count of their productions. ;-)
>
> Here's my rather shorter list of things that ICANN ought to do.  Please
> pardon the shorthand form.
>
>                 --karl--
>
> 1 Allocation of IP addresses
>
> 1.1 Is a very complex issue
>
> 1.1.1 it is a mix of technical and economic factors and there is very
> little understanding of these issues outside of those who are directly
> involved in the address allocation or routing systems of the Internet.
>
> 1.1.1.1 The economic ramifications are generally under appreciated.
>
> 1.2 The most basic goal is adherence to the principles of CIDR.
>
> 2 DNS Tasks
>
> 2.1 Hint file publication
>
> 2.2 Root zone entry admission and maintenance (i.e. who gets an entry in
> the root zone and to where should the delegation records point.)
>
> 2.3 Periodic root zone file construction, distribution, disaster data
> preservation.
>
> 2.4 Root server operation (direct or indirect)
>
> 2.5 Root server placement (involves question of "anycast" routing
> technology.)
>
> 2.6 Root zone dissemination
>
> 2.7 Failure/error monitoring
>
> 2.8 Preservation of historical versions of zone files/delegations.
>
> 2.9 Huge open question: To what extent should ICANN reach into TLD
> registration systems?
>
> 2.9.1 Most basic: escrow/data protection and recovery
>
> 2.9.2 Less basic: whois gathering and accuracy
>
> 2.9.3 Registry-registrar protocols
>
> 2.9.3.1 (Note, registry/registrar model is not only one possible.  E.g.
> it is possible to represent domain name "ownership" by a digital
> certificate [non-repudiation of transfers requires support from by a
> transfer agent [who needs not know the subject matter of the
> certificate], much like a "bearer bond".)
>
> 2.9.4 Least basic: DNS consumer rights, UDRP
>
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