RE: [ga] Sen. Burns to the Chair of the Commerce Committee

["David Hernand" <david@new.net>]

As many of you know, New.net recently issued a policy paper regarding the
need to reform DNS governance that posits that the U.S. will maintain
control over the legacy DNS root.  One of the themes in our paper is that we
all must be brutally honest in assessing the current political and economic
landscape when devising solutions to the current broken structure.  Based on
conversations that I and others from New.net have had with members of
Congress and DOC officials, we think that it is extremely unlikely that the
U.S. Government will give up control over the root in the foreseeable
future.  Senator Burns' letter provides further evidence of that point.  If
true, then ICANN will never be able to achieve its mission, either in its
current form or in the form envisioned by Stuart Lynn.  In light of the
reality of continued U.S. control, we have proposed solutions that
contemplate ongoing control, but afford greater recognition of the interests
of ccTLD operators and greater reliance on market forces instead of ICANN's
notion of privatized worldwide government.  (For those that are interested,
our paper is available at http://www.new.net/WhitePaper_v2.pdf  (PDF
version)  http://www.new.net/WhitePaper_v2.html (HTML version)).

David Hernand

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Sotiris
Sotiropoulos
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:15 PM
To: George Kirikos
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Sen. Burns to the Chair of the Commerce Committee




George Kirikos wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> --- Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com> wrote:
> > The US never really had any intention of handing control
> > over the root to anyone, least of all an
> > pseudo-international body a.k.a. ICANN.
>
> Personally, I have no problems with US control over the root. Having it
> in the hands of a stable democracy with a mature legal system seems
> preferable to that of a quasi-UN board, with unknown intentions and
> difficult enforcement mechanisms. I prefer the devil I know, I suppose.
> :) [I'm Canadian, by the way, so supporting the Americans isn't a
> nationalistic thing for me]

I'm Canadian as well!  Perhaps Canada should run the root?

>
> What's important, though, is to not let the beast get out of control.
> It's mandate should be limited to the technical issues, without policy
> creep into areas beyond its scope.

Fat chance of that!

--
Sincerely,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
	Hermes Network Inc.
	Toronto, Canada

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