[governance] Present draft does not consider 'real oversight options'

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wz-berlin.de
Mon Nov 7 14:48:14 EST 2005




> 
> I did have the hope, that perhaps we could agree on the degree and form 
> of external political oversight without needing to actually decide on 
> who would wield it.

This has been my idea too, to craft a compromise that focuses on the 
substance of accountability instead of the type of actors that exert 
control.
> 
> Additionally, I don't see how it can be taken away from the USG except 
> by creation of a new domain name system. For the current DNS, I think we 
> need to find a solution that they can accept aand willingly hand over 
> control to.  I think that this real-politic has to constrain the 
> solution space we explore.

My sense is that this solution space is not really static. We can only 
assume what the USG will find acceptable in the coming years.
jeanette
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> a.
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