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

[Ian Peter]

Three possible scenarios at least John -

1. As you say, US Government deciding to hand over control. As you say,
fairly unlikely.

2. UN sponsoring at alternative root (which may or may not include some
existing operators) and ICANN agreeing to use the new UN root.

3. ICANN sets up a root system, continues all DNS management as normal, and
invites UN to control authorisation function currently performed by USG.

In short - US only controls the root with the consent of the governed. There
is no magic here, only trust - and a surprising inertia in setting up a
truly global Internet root zone system.

Ian Peter


> From: John Levine <icggov at johnlevine.com>
> Date: 24 Oct 2011 22:44:09 -0000
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
> Cc: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> Subject: Re: [governance] IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding
> on November 4
> 
>> And why on earth does ICANN or anyone else like the root zone
>> operators have to follow their instructions anyway?
> 
> Because the E, G, and H roots are operated by the US Government, and
> the A, B, D, and J roots are operated by organizations with extensive
> US Government contracts?  Or was this a purely hypothetical question?
> 
> No amount of blustering will change the fact that the US Government is
> firmly in charge of the root and will be unless they make the unlikely
> decision to hand their control over to someone ele.
> 
> R's,
> John


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