AW: [governance] US Congrerss & JPA

[Milton L Mueller]

Karl:
Do you agree with me and with Philip Hallam-Baker that implementation of DNSSEC makes it much more difficult, if not impossible for multiple, consistent roots to be maintained? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl at cavebear.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:38 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
> Subject: Re: AW: [governance] US Congrerss & JPA
> 
> On 08/07/2009 05:56 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
> 
> > Avri: well of course DoC does not have to do what the House Committee
> > on Energy and Commerce tells it to do. And of course ICANN would have
> > to agree (that is the Board not the CEO). Don't know if they will.
> > what happens if they don't? And what is going to happen around the
> > world as US insists that the DNS is theirs, all theirs?
> 
> The answer to that question is one that depends on whether one
> unquestioningly accepts certain assumptions as truths or whether one
> takes a deeper look.
> 
> The most basic of those assumptions is that there must be exactly one
> DNS for the internet.
> 
> Technically that is not true.
> 
> There can be (and in fact there are) many.  Most are badly operated, an
> unfortunate fact that has caused the disrepute of the operators to
> unfairly splash onto the idea.
> 
> What we need to recognize is that the real issue is not the multiplicity
> of DNS systems or DNS roots or DNS root zone but rather the consistency
> among them.  Users and providers (and people who have to repair the net)
> do not like and will shun inconsistency.
> 
> I have written about this, in particular how re-evaluation of our
> assumptions in this regard, can give us a path out of our centralized
> regulatory mess and also solve the TLD wars that have consumed a good
> part of ICANN this last decade:
> 
> http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000331.html
> 
> (You could read the whole thing, but for the purposes of this email, you
> could scan down to the section "The Alternative History")
> 
> The point of that note is to argue that if we adopt a slightly relaxed
> definition of "consistent" that the allowance of competing root zones
> that are disseminated by competing systems of roots gives us a path
> forward - it allows for the de-centralized growth of DNS and also give
> those communities that wish to reduce their view of the internet
> landscape (as some religious groups want to do) a means to do so without
> constraining those who do not want to go along.
> 
> 		--karl--
> 
> 
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