[governance] so do i owe bill drake a pizza or not?

[Milton L Mueller]

> rules could be tough on they key issues.  Someone care to spell out  
> the argument for how this constitutes a real break in the governance  
> of names and numbers, rather than a limited, incremental 
> step? Some years ago the US and EU came up with the face-saving 
> safe harbor agreement on privacy protection, and US business pretty 
> much continued on its merry way.  How different will this be, 
> in terms of outcomes?

Bill, you are saying that this is not a very good accountability mechanism. Ding! On target. But, as far as the JPA termination goes, the basic issue is that (other than IANA contract) Commerce Dept oversight is finished, over, it's now just one of several GAC members in the basic supervision. Also the Affirmation itself seems to have no legal authority or binding power. And, the NTIA-ers got all the folks who might scream about "giving the internet away to furriners" (VeriSign, CSIS, Google) to agree to it in advance and put up favorable public comments on their web site. Altogether, an impressive fig leaf to cover the end of the JPA. Well done, tactically. But no, let's not be fooled about this solving the accountability problem. And let's pay careful attention to the enhanced role of GAC and the possible abuse of its selection powers.

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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