Re: [ga] VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab and ALAC's ligitimacy
At 05:13 12/10/03, Joop Teernstra wrote:
Work seriously on an alternative and better structure. Then lobby for that
structure. Spend personal money. Volunteer time. Aim for surviving long
enough that natural selection can do its work. Internet time runs too fast
for dragons.
Sorry, Joop, this has no future.
Only to provide a relation pool for the only real possiblity. These are
actions to curb an exsitsing structure (to better it) or to try an
alternative as the alt-root TLDA (worse).
None will work (better or alternative) only secondaries can work. Please
stop thinking binary. Think network when managing a network.
No one wants to fight ICANN. We only want it to behave itself. As one inter
pares and to work in concertation. I know, ICANN just do that (American
meaning). What I want is they do it French meaning (now Eurospeak: work and
live in concert) because this is the only way a multilateral strcuture can
work.
Concertation does not mean that power is better delegated (a better ICANN)
or better shared in cooperation (an alternative democratic ICANN). It means
each participant (country, large networked and serviced communities)
retains its power and that subsidiarity applies (each one respects and
helps accomplish the duties of others).
This means:
1. to create and give practical credibility through ISPs, specialized
community TLD and SLD Managers and groups of users, to secondary root
publisher(s).
2. to have security and innovation orientated mutual concertation among
such publishers. In this ICANN can either be (or both) the secretary of the
consensus and/or the US publisher (with NTIA).
3. to create a technical arhitectural think-tank where to modelize a comon
vision of the network and of its future and negotiate or get consensus on
its avolution - as per ICANN ICP-3, starting with an authoritative matrix
root common management system. The current Internet reminds me my golden
years, nice. But there is a 25 years experience now to take eventually into
account. Nets unity cannot be built in imposing solutions from the past,
only in a commonly shared vision of the NGN.
Our today problem is to decide if such publishers will be @large NGOs, Gov.
sponsored/initiated or ITU. From experience and from trying to restore that
common management in that three directions (with the hope they could ally -
http://i-sector.org ) I feel situation is nearly out of control (WSIS) by
total lack of understanding between the technical, societal/business and
political parties.
The problem being that we are confronted to a major network and that only a
few today already think and speak network.
jfc