Alternative DNS systems and net neutrality - Was: Re: [governance] DNSsec and allternative DNS system

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Lee McKnight wrote:

> That adage 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' was used by AT&T to argue
> against getting busted up back in mid-80s; from a political economy
> perpesctive one might argue that that was as important as the us dod
> backing in teh growth of the Internet, because new entrants like Sprint
> and MCI were the 1st movers building backbone nets for the Internet.

A corporate monopoly is entirely different from a body that does work on
public private partnerships and consensus. Too bad, the processes seem (at
least in the public eye) stalled - especially because there are enough
strong views on both sides of a few equations to avoid consensus, or because
there are enough business interests around pulling in different directions
or ... [plenty of reasons there]

You won't get different results from what's already going on if you simply
break up ICANN - you will instead have a bunch of different people doing
their own thing is all.

I'll even go out on a limb and say that, for a lot of countries, local and
international Internet / iGov policy is being set by their telecom ministry
and regulator simply to tilt the playing field in favor of their incumbent
telco. 

Like - if too many ISPs start offering MPLS VPN services, so that people who
were buying point to point leased line circuits from the incumbent telco to
link their remote offices with HQ now decide to buy ADSL lines for the
remote offices and VPN their employees there .. why then, just introduce a
steep "VPN tax".

	srs

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