[governance] Re: Alternative DNS systems and net neutrality

[Dan Krimm]

At 7:03 PM -0800 11/19/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Karl Auerbach [19/11/07 18:46 -0800]:

>> As for "politically acceptable" - it depends what metric one uses.  Some of
>> us find the present incumbent favoring, restraint of trade mechanisms to be
>> not merely politically questionable but also a stark departure from the
>> end-to-end principle, the rules and laws of open and competitive trade, and
>
>If you think the end to end principle even exists these days .. please stop
>living in the past.

If the end-to-end principle is "living in the past" perhaps it's time to
reclaim the past for the future once again.  (Or perhaps the political
essence of the end-to-end principle can accommodate constrained deviations
from the purely technical description of end-to-end.  As long as the
principle of "control to the edges" is honored, a pure end-to-end technical
design need not be required.)

This is a political issue, not just a technical issue.  Technical fatalism
is not useful or appropriate in discussions of political governance, as
technological design is clearly fungible according to political missions.

Best to bring those political issues out into the open and address them
explicitly, rather than allow them to remain under the radar for special
interests to bend to their narrow missions without politically accountable
deliberation on proper application and design.

Dan
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