[governance] IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4

[KovenRonald at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/23/11 6:33:12 PM, pouzin at well.com writes:


> What international agreement allows the USG to make unilateral decisions 
> on the management of a common good ?
> 

†he US didn't arrogate such a right to itself. It invented the Internet and 
gave it to the international community. 

Most of the alternatives proposed to the present system involve giving 
control to intergovernmental bodies in which authoritarian governments have 
heavy influence. The present system is admittedly unsatisfactory from a 
theoretical standpoint, but the US has in practice refrained from exercising 
control, with only a couple relatively minor exceptions. It seems unlikely that 
China or Russia, or even France, amongst the UN Security Council permanent 
members, would have exercised that much self-restraint.

Pending invention of a system that is both theoretically equitable and free 
in practice, the present setup seems to be a matter of leaving well enough 
alone.

Rony Koven, World Press Freedom Committee
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