[governance] Framework convention

[Karl Auerbach]

Alejandro Pisanty wrote:

> Devising a global-governance structure that can have a chance to be 
> useful in any issue other than the now-solved coordination of the DNS, 
> IP addressing, etc. 

I would have to strongly differ with the assertion that DNS coordination 
is "solved".

Certainly DNS "solved" in the sense that trademark owners have had their 
wildest dreams fulfilled.  And certainly in the sense that Verisign has 
had a temporary management contract turned into perpetual ownership of a 
money tree.

But what matters to the community of internet users is whether the upper 
tiers of DNS reliably, accurately, and efficiently transform DNS query 
packets into DNS response packets with neither prejudice for nor 
prejudice against any query source or query subject.

In that regard DNS is as naked as it was in 1995 and is as susceptible 
now as it was then to failure or destabilization due to natural or human 
causes.

In that regard, our experience with internet governance with DNS has 
been an abject failure and there remains a very necessary job that is 
not being done and all internet users are at risk of a DNS that wobbles 
or fails in its most primary of functions.

As for IP addresses - Yes, the RIRs are doing a reasonable, and 
relatively inexpensive, job of it.  It is interesting to compare how 
they approach their job - they approach issues with a tight focus on 
technical matters and do not try to engage in social or economic 
engineering.

As for "protocol parameters", well one can't say that the IETF is 
particularly satisfied with performance to date.

		--karl--




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