[governance] Is really Bulgarian Cyrillic .бг (.bg) similar to other Latin ccTLDs?

[Karl Auerbach]

On 11/03/2011 07:50 AM, John Curran wrote:


> ... it is very important for all of us that actions performed under the name 
> "IANA" be strictly _recording_ tasks and not involve any judgement other than 
> against unequivocal criteria in adopted policy.  Loss of this principle at
> this particular point in time would be rather suboptimal on multiple levels.

Much agreed, particularly given the pending re-bid for "the IANA
function" contract.

However:

Some years back an IETF chair insisted that the IANA function involved
techno-policy decisions that were so deep, so esoteric, and of such
critical import that it would require a post-graduate degree in computer
science to comprehend, much less to do, the job.

That assertion was, of course, self-serving institutional nonsense.

When stripped of all the smoke and mirrors, IANA is essentially a
non-discretionary clerical function - maintenance of the internet's big
book of numbers

Occasionally in the maintenance of the internet's protocol parameters
there are technical ramifications and questions that involve some
discretion.  That does not mean that that discretion is vested in IANA -
for instance the IETF established a mechanism through which IANA has
access to IETF experts who can be involved in those cases where more
than clerical expertise is required.

If there is an area of discretion that IANA has staked out as its own it
is in the allocation of the top blocks of address space to the RIRs.  In
this, as well as the other things it does, IANA has done a good job.

Unfortunately, ICANN, because its authority rests largely on thin air,
has found it a useful foundational prop to have opacity rather than
clarity regarding its relationship with "the IANA function".

For instance, the scope and limits of "the IANA function" are
sufficiently vague that I had to make a written request of NTIA to
clarify whether the L-root is associated with IANA or ICANN.  In
response I received a rather vague statement that the L-root was *not*
part of "the IANA function" under the IANA purchase order performed by
ICANN, but no clarification at all regarding where the L-root does fall.

		--karl--
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