[governance] IG questions that are not ICANN [was: Irony]

[Karl Auerbach]

>> There is strong interest here in many IG issues that are not purely 
>> ICANN. I see four main categories:

There's one more that we both forgot:

7. Oversight of the upper tiers of DNS to assure that DNS query packets 
are quickly, efficiently, accurately, and reliably transformed into DNS 
response packets without prejudice for or against any query source or 
queried name.

We have informal protection through the stellar performance of the root 
server operators, but they are under no oversight except their 
individual selves and they are free to go other ways, even to cease, at 
their own whim and option.

And most TLD operators run good quality operations, but again, there is 
little oversight.  Many believe that ICANN provides that oversight, but 
if one looks at what ICANN does one sees that that oversight is 
primarily on the "front office" operation - they buying and selling of 
domain names - and not on the part that the vast majority of internet 
users care about, the actual handling of DNS query packets.  (ICANN does 
have a few requirements, but they are so broad and orders of magnitude 
off scale as to be largely useless.

Many internet users are of the belief that such oversight exists.  In 
that regard they hold an opinion that is not greatly different from that 
held by the residents of New Orleans in the summer of 2004 when they 
thought that the US government was prepared to respond to hurricane 
disasters.

I described some of the concrete aspects in the note on this list at 
http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/arc/governance/2007-11/msg00589.html

		--karl--

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