[governance] NTIA announcement on JPA

[Milton L Mueller]

There are many viable alternatives. 

You may be confusing the JPA with the IANA contract, as many do.

One is for the US to complete the transition to an improved, more
accountable ICANN. (the IGP proposal, if you will)

Another is for the US to create a club of other trusted govts that it
shares oversight authority with (the Burr-Cade proposal). 

I could go on, but don't confuse Bush admin. stubborness and a small
sector of DC-based interest groups as intrinsic aspects of physical
reality. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:37 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Milton L Mueller; 'John Levine'
> Subject: RE: [governance] NTIA announcement on JPA
> 
> > I think you're confusing "legitimacy" with acceptance based on a
lack
> > of any feasible alternative.
> 
> Oh no. "The only viable alternative" - and for all the discussion
there's
> still no feasible alternative, except in theory / as a
> gedankenexperiment..
> is quite enough to confer legitimacy.  Legitimate, illegitimate,
whatever
> -
> trying to uproot this without a viable alternative in place to replace
it,
> one that wont get mired in the same set of issues we currently face
(only
> spread across a much broader canvas) is going to fail.

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