[governance] What happened at the NARALO/ALAC/CCNSO?

[Kieren McCarthy]

Actually the SSAC reports are a great example of the strange way in the
which Internet self-regulates itself.

They are also testament to Dave Piscitello, Steve Crocker and Suzanne
Woolf's skills and foresight.

What tends to happen is that the SSAC sees an issue coming; makes a decision
to review it; does some really good research; produces a clear, coherent and
insightful document; adds a set of recommendations; and then everyone
ignores it...

... right up to the point where the issue that Dave, Steve and Suzanne
foresaw actually hits. At which point everyone downloads the relevant SSAC
report and starts implementing the recommendations as fast as they can.

I've see it happen several times now and I predict it will happen again wrt
domain name ownership, and wrt whatever they've produced in the past six
months.


This is Internet self-regulation at its very best.




Kieren





-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:21 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Kieren McCarthy
Subject: RE: Re: Re: [governance] What happened at the NARALO/ALAC/CCNSO?

Kieren,

One of the problems I see is that not all policy
matters work their way through the formal Policy
Develoment Process.  For example, I think that you
would agree that domain hijackings are a "bad thing"
and that from a policy perspective registrars should
be required to adopt all necessary measures to
safeguard the integrity of the domain name system.

If you have a look at the SSAC report on Domain
Hijackings issued in July 2005 you will note a series
of ten recommendations (most of which have never been
implemented) -- see
http://www.icann.org/announcements/hijacking-report-12jul05.pdf

I have to ask myself, just what is the point of these
Advisory Committee recommendations if there is no
follow-through to make sure that such recommendations
are adopted.  What we have, in effect, is no policy at
all regarding hijackings -- all we have are "best
practices" that the registrar community has failed to
adopt or abide by.   

So yes, the community pointed out a problem that came
to the forefront in the wake of the PANIX hijacking,
community input was provided, community comments were
tendered, and a decision was essentially made by the
Board to drop the matter and not proceed with a PDP
(which under the bylaws they were at liberty to
request).  The process stalled at the Board level (and
the public still has no idea why).  This is, to me,
not indicative of a process that works correctly.

Danny



 
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