[governance] USG on ICANN - no movement here

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi Bret, sounds like an interesting change of strategy. After multiple 
roots as a (not too successful) method to bypass central authority, 
fractured roots are now introduced as a means of delegitimizing central 
oversight?

jeanette

Bret Fausett wrote:
>  > I am still wondering what is "adult" about US DoC supervision.
>  > I certainly understand the geopolitical motivation behind it,
>  > but I don't see the value add for the Internet.
> 
> The better question is whether there is a value add for the _United 
> States_, and the answer has to be "yes," else the reigns would have been 
> turned over to someone else long ago.
> 
> And to Avri's point about how to move beyond U.S. authority over the 
> root, the answer, whatever it is, has something to do with making the 
> U.S. authority a problem for, not a benefit to, the United States.
> 
> A fractured root gets close to something that looks like an answer.
> 
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