[governance] Re: [At-Large] DOC Notice of Inquiry: DNSSEC

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Roberto and all,

  Well I hope that the "French Root" will be *fully* complimentary.
But given Frances history, I obviously have my doubts.
Vive la France!  >:)

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> I was at the meeting, which was indeed hosted by the EU presidency.
> One additional piece of information is that at the same meeting, the day
> before, Eric Besson (French State Secretary for the developement of Digital
> Economy) had announced the "French root" for the object naming system, as
> complementary to the one managed by Verisign.
> Different people might have different opinions on whether the two items are
> related or not.
> Cheers,
> Roberto
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> > [mailto:at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf
> > Of Adam Peake
> > Sent: Thursday, 09 October 2008 15:01
> > To: At-Large Worldwide
> > Subject: Re: [At-Large] DOC Notice of Inquiry: DNSSEC
> >
> > >On Oct 9, 2008, at 7:09 AM, John L wrote:
> > >
> > >>>This smells bad. Why would the USG, through the Department of
> > >>>Commerce, solicit and consider the input of foreign entities?
> > >>
> > >>Presumably because there will be ccTLDs in the DNSSEC
> > signed root zone
> > >>who would have some interest in the chain of custody of their own
> > >>DNSSEC data from their TLD managers to the signed root.
> > >>
> > >>DOC has, after all, been careful over the years to avoid do
> > anything
> > >>at the root that would annoy other governments.
> > >
> > >I hear you, but it doesn't add up. The DOC has no foreign
> > mandate that
> > >I'm aware of, and I have no standing with them as a foreign
> > citizen. So
> > >while I see the words on the screen in front of me, I'm a
> > bit confused
> > >about whether or not me speaking to them will carry any
> > weight at all,
> > >or whether this is just window-dressing.
> >
> >
> > Did they listen during the Green/White paper discussions?
> >
> > That it's mentioned during a meeting hosted by the EU
> > Presidency perhaps significant. They do need countries on
> > their side with whatever decisions they make.
> >
> > But who knows what happens if Norm Coleman or similar pick up on this.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> > >/r
> > >
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