[governance] ITU vs. ICANN

[Karl Auerbach]

On 10/13/2010 07:25 AM, John Curran wrote:

> The Regional Internet Registries make use of this model for policy
> formation, and I can say that it works quite well in the ARIN region.

The RIRs have also hit upon a core-element of success - they confine 
their policy to a fairly narrow realm that has rather clear ties to 
technical constraints and goals.

And as we have seen in the ARIN debates over marketplaces for IP 
addresses, once we begin to move outside of that narrow, technically 
grounded core area the difficulty of reaching good solutions becomes 
much harder.

It has long been my sense that one of the ways we can improve our 
approach to internet governance is to divide our goals so that we can 
shrink wrap a narrowly tailored, tightly defined body of governance 
around each one of those goals.  We would find, I assert, that in many 
cases that the "governance" of an issue would be largely a clerical 
matter that rarely, if ever would cause debate or concern - consider for 
instance most of the protocol parameter assignments made by IANA.  There 
would, of course, be a few nuggets, such as TLD policy, that would be 
real hard to handle; but they would be easier to handle then the kind of 
generalized, expansive policymaking that has so bedeviled ICANN.

	--karl--
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