[governance] US Congrerss & JPA

[Karl Auerbach]

On 08/06/2009 04:08 AM, Eric Dierker wrote:
> I like this Karl.  I only wish the jobs to be done were nice and black
> and white. They are not.

I disagree.  Years ago I started to enumerate the jobs that we need to 
have performed.  Take a look at: http://www.cavebear.com/archive/rw/apfi.htm

There is another formulation at 
http://www.cavebear.com/archive/public/ntia-july-7-2006-statement.html 
(Scan down for "Answering the Specific Questions" and then either search 
(or better yet, read) your way down to "Form follows function"

As I see it there are many jobs (e.g. protocol parameter assignment, TLD 
record updates, root zone file preparation and dissemination, etc) that 
could be handed over to several clerical bodies.

Then there are some policy jobs (that are might be addressed by the kind 
of notice-and-comment process used by many administrative bodies when 
the make rules.

Then there are the very highly policy loaded jobs - such as IP address 
allocation policy, whois, and TLD policy - that might be worth more 
elaborate structure - with one entity for each problem (*not* one entity 
that handles multiple problems.)

By-the-way, there is a subtle point about my metric i.e. that DNS name 
query packets are quickly, efficiently, and accurately translated into 
DNS name response packets without prejudice against any query source or 
query subject.

That subtle point is this: That I don't think we ought to care very much 
about the performance and quality of the system through which registrars 
and registries do their front office business of selling names - there 
are customers enough, and money enough behind those customers, to drive 
good standards of performance.

But from the perspective of internet governance that reflects the 
concerns of internet users the quality of the process of resolving 
names, i.e. the back-office operations of registries, is what is critical.


		--karl--








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