[governance] Framework convention

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Karl,

the civil answer is that the storm of scandalous statements you have 
subjected us to, including this last one, is in discord with fact.

Bye-bye.

Alejandro Pisanty

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On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:32:52 -0700
> From: Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
> Reply-To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Framework convention
> 
> 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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