<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:44 PM, John Curran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" target="_blank">jcurran@istaff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Similarly, I do not consider that structures used for governance of critical Internet
resources (e.g. name and number identifiers) to be inherently superior simply due
to the particular circumstances of origin. In fact, I completely discount the origin
and simply consider the structures on their demonstrated merits and weaknesses<br>
(i.e. good ideas are good ideas regardless of origin) The bias towards the status
quo is not a ringing endorsement of the existing structures, nor a heartfelt belief
that the structures must be superior because of US origin and exceptionlism,
but simply reflect the reality that there is an existing functional system which
has enabled the growth and success of the Internet to date, and <i>an absence of any alternative described in sufficient detail to be demonstrably superior.</i><br>
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FYI,<br>
/John<br>
- - -<br></blockquote><div><br>This <i>final argument </i>is customarily used to discard methods or technologies carrying the potential to derail, disrupt, replace, .. some older ones considered as proven, and usually feeding strong vested interests (read lobbies).<br>
<br>Were automobiles superior to oxcarts, roads superior to railways, airplanes superior to airships ? Surely not when they were first engineered.<br><br>Lobbies never have enough details when the real issue is to defend their turf. Thus we should not worry too much about such a tactic.<br>
<br>Critical internet resources are names, numbers, routes, and now data. The internet scale has outgrown its 40-year old design. Overpatching is not a solution, it just increases complexity.<br><br>There is not much improvement to expect from revamping existing structures, they have plainly revealed their limits. It's time to think of manageable components and build on subsidiarity.<br>
<br>Cheers, Louis.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div>