[governance] Interesting comments re changing face of

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Ian and all,

  To a great degree and increasingly so, unfortunately Dana is
correct.  Thankfully such is not the case in my company, and
likely will not be in some time to come.

  Administrators that do not have a strong technical background
with significant experience in same, represents a very great danger
to their organizations who's revenue is anchored in IT.  Banks
and financial institutions are finding this out now, and will increasingly
do so over the next 2 to 5 years unless a sea change in Administration
leadership and recognition is realized, excepted and acted upon
appropriately very soon.

Ian Peter wrote:

> Dana Blankenhorn's comments, reproduced in part below, are interesting in
> the context of the ongoing role of the "technical community" in internet
> governance.
>
> While technical community has taken on different meanings here to include
> internet administrative functions, the comments on how things have changed
> as regards independence of engineers is worth examining. Is IETF becoming
> threatened, dominated or unduly influenced by vendor considerations?
>
> Ian Peter
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> ________________________________________
> From: Dana Blankenhorn [dana at a-clue.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:39 PM
> To: David Farber
> Subject: Re: [IP] FCC Commissioner: "Engineers solve engineering problems"
>
> When engineers are fully under the control of vendors they will do the
> vendors' bidding.
>
> The difference between the Internet of today and the Internet of 10
> years ago is that most Internet engineers today are forced to work for
> telcos or cable operators whose agenda is not the Internet, but the
> maintenance of other revenue streams.
>
> Mr. McDonnell might like to wish this away, but that's like pretending
> that hiring at the Department of Justice was not politicized, or that
> torture didn't take place at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. It's just pretend.
>
> We need to all grow up and look the reality in the face. A monopolized
> market is not going to maintain the independence of engineers from the
> monopoly's quest for profit.
>
> What the Internet needs most is a free marketplace in which the Internet
> is the primary focus of most players, and the ultimate health of the
> Internet is the primary goal.
>
> We do not have that today. Pretending that we do, that Verizon or AT&T
> or Comcast engineers are independent agents, is, I'm sorry to say, a lie.
>
> So if engineers are to be in charge of the Internet, they need to be
> engineers who are not under the thrall of the monopolists, and the
> monopolists must promise to abide by the decisions of those engineers in
> their network designs.
>
> Otherwise the monopolists will have won.
>
> --
> Dana Blankenhorn
>
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