[governance] Vixie supports another root administration

[Paul Vixie]

# > And personally, I don't think that the particular country to which
# > that one government belongs makes too much of a difference:
# 
# In principle, this is true. We will have non consensus to replace the
# US government by the chinese or french government.

in practice, it probably won't be decided by consensus.  as i wrote in
<http://fm.vix.com/internet/governance/wgig-report-july05.html>...

	I think a lot of hard work went into this report, and considering the
	number and strength and diversity of views expressed during the WGIG
	process, the result has to be called herculean.  I'm a bit concerned
	that it amounts to a generally agreed upon statement that "somebody
	ought to put a bell on that cat".  Turning hegemony into democracy by
	peaceful means has been done only a few times in human history, and
	the outlook for this time isn't good.

# But what about small and perceived-as-neutral countries like Finland
# or Costa-Rica? This may be something to explore... Noone could accuse
# them of having an imperial agenda.

i think the general structure of ICANN-- a public benefit corporation with
international governance-- is the right steward for top level naming and
numbering authority.  ICANN seems to have some problems fulfilling that role,
either because of USG oversight or weak internal controls or whatever-- but
that's not a reason to prefer a small neutral government over the structure
that ICANN was originally supposed to have, and perhaps, could still have.
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