[governance] NTIA announcement on JPA

[Ian Peter]

John just so its clear -

I don’t want to replace ICANN and have never suggested that- I think the
structure is good in general for what they do but at times they don't act to
their strengths.

I just want them to take appropriate actions so that they can be seen as a
truly international organisation. At the moment they appear to be the tool
of one government. When I use the word legitimacy that's what Im talking
about.

Only ICANN can act to remove itself from the stigma associated with
reporting to one government alone.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:icggov at johnlevine.com]
> Sent: 04 April 2008 12:00
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Cc: ian.peter at ianpeter.com
> Subject: Re: [governance] NTIA announcement on JPA
> 
> PS:
> 
> >We seem to be able to run international telecommunications, air
> >transport, shipping, sport, and a number of other functions perfectly
> >well without any single government having specific unequal rights.
> 
> Except that none of them have a chokepoint analgous to the DNS root,
> and in many cases there's national regulators imposing rules at a
> level of detail that few Internet users would like.  (Compare the
> process of setting up a web hosting company with the process of
> setting up a telephone company.)
> 
> Look, I am no fan of ICANN, as should be clear to anyone who followed
> my stint on the ICANN ALAC.  But if you want to replace them, the
> issue isn't that they're not "legitimate", it's that they're
> incompetent.  Registrars collapse, and ICANN first denies for a year
> that it's their problem, then waves lawyers at them until Godaddy
> finally steps in and does something.  Users want domains in their own
> languages, ICANN can't even use the limited specs the IETF has
> offered, much less address issues of whether, e.g., Verisign has a
> prior claim to the Chinese translation of .COM.  Registrars do front
> running and speculation in obvious violation of their ICANN contracts,
> the ICANN board will only foist the issue off on yet another commitee
> and hope it goes away.
> 
> If you want to replace ICANN, forget about legitimacy, and think hard
> about competence.  Offer an actual better alternative, and then you
> have a chance of getting someone's attention.
> 
> R's,
> John
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