[governance] Demystifying the debate

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Thanks Lee. I totally agree. 

The plenary list (although I know this list is overwhelming for many) for
example, could be used to disseminate info (especially a draft statement
from the roottops are you suggested= from Paul and his team). Besides this
list then, we need to find a way to get it to CS, Private sector and
governments and ensure it is read and understood. 

Those of us who have friendly governments who do listen to us, and whose
governments are very involved in the government debates, we should aim to
give them this material to them so they may use this to help possibly
demystify and break some deadlocks and ensure meaningful discussions. Worth
a try. I also recall speaking with the rapporteur of the PrepCom (from
Greece) who was very intrigued about some of some facts I shared with him
about these issues, and he was very keen to help demystify any rumours
amongst the gov to focus debates on something more meanigful. I would try
reaching out to him too.

Personally, I think this should have been done a long time ago whilst the IG
debates were going on or way before it even started. But it appears that CS
was partly responsible for perpetuating some of this "emotive" perspectives
as well, as I noted in the IG caucus update to CS during the orientation
session and things said on this list.

Regards,
Laina

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Subject: Re: [governance] Vixie supports another root administration

Paul,

More info on the site is of course good.

And I know some have advocated a contract explicitly stating what the
rootops will and will not do, but I think doing that could be a big mistake.
I prefer your nonbinding promise. 

Better for rootops to develop a 'policy statement' or something soft like
that, which preserves their independence and flexibility, and just post to
the website Paul as you are offering.

I'm sure many in CS would be happy to help develop text for that brief
statement, but maybe Paul you should first discuss amongst your rootops
peers. Or would you rather have some draft text in hand for that
conversation?

And finally with regards to Stephane's rhetorical challenge, the more
imaginable doomsday scenarios all involve - lots of other governments and
more specificlly non-tech bureacrats. So it's not CS apologists for Bush,
it's keeping a room full of Bush wannabe's from trying to review files they
don't have a clue about, but recognize it's somehow important.  

Anyway, Paul, if you and colleagues can write something  factual that may
help demystify, thanks. 

Though I doubt it can stop the debate, maybe we will all be better informed
: )

Lee

Prof. Lee W. McKnight
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
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>>> Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> 10/10/05 3:36 PM >>>
# Any other speculation that the US would take unilateral action and somehow
# "force" the IANA to change the rootzone is just scaremongering IMO.

and IMO also.

# Yes, mainly but many governments (and some CS folk) want to also have the
# rootops sign some kind of agreement (a contract) with a central entity, to
# ensure continued good service.  This is "rootserver management", another #
thorny issue unlikely to be resolved by WSIS.

my employer (Internet Systems Consortium, Inc; operator of F-Root) is on
record as being willing to promise to just about anybody to keep doing what
we've always done, which is serve IANA's data faithfully from
192.5.5.241
and 2001:500::1035.  but a non-binding promise without any recourse doesn't
seem to be of much interest, and ISC's responsibilities in this regard are
to the public rather than to any particular government or NGO.

# > Just thought it would be good to get some clarifications.
#
# You are correct, it would be nice to have more transparency around the
root # server system. The website (http://root-servers.org/) run by the root
server # operators could be more informative.

i've got a login on that system and could add text to that web site, i
guess, as long as the other rootops didn't disagree with the proposed text. 
what
do you have in mind?
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