[governance] Re: Alternative DNS systems and net neutrality

[Veni Markovski]

Hi, Dan.

At 12:25 11/16/2007  -0800, you wrote:
>But how exactly do you determine that "the current model is working"?  For
>whom is it working, and for whom is it not working?

It is working for anyone who wants to get online, and go to any web 
site. For whom it is not working, is a question determined mainly by 
national or regional policies. E.g. in France Yahoo had to stop 
access to those pages of their web site, where there was sale of nazi 
symbols. Perhaps others can give other examples.

>Apparently for many who wish to operate TLDs that have not currently been
>allowed into root, it is not working.

Let's try to be more detailed here: how many? what are they doing 
now? why do they want to have alternative roots?

>If it really were working for everyone, then there would be no controversy
>about it.  Conversely, the controversy demonstrates that it is not working
>for everyone.

What it demonstrates is, that there are people who are not happy with 
the current model, not that it is not working. But, then, ICANN's 
task is not to make people happy, but to make sure the small segment 
of the Internet it is responsible for, is working. Which it does.

veni 

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