[governance] Another view on TLDs

[Norbert Bollow]

Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:

> By way of analogy - the systems that oversee the safety of aircraft and 
> seacraft tend to confine themselves to matters that pertain to the air 
> or sea worthiness of the craft - that oversight barely goes to the color 
> scheme of the interior (e.g. safety requires adequate lighting) and 
> rarely goes to the business plans of the owners.
> 
> Internet governance should follow that pattern - it should strictly 
> confine itself to the job that needs to be done.

The difference is that while disagreements on issues like what kinds
of content are morally acceptable or unacceptable for non-technical
reasons don't cause technical problems for aircraft, such
disagreements do cause technical problems for the internet.

For example, the introduction of .xxx into the root zones would have
sparked, in many countries, efforts aimed at preventing access to
websites under .xxx from working correctly in the sense of the
technical standards of the internet.

Greetings,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                    http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG  http://SIUG.ch
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