IANA and what is to come 10 years hence? (was: Re: [governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still…))

[John Curran]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did have an idea, more so from Ian's earlier response, that the central issue is one of what you call "editorial control". I don't expect a political decision on Internationalization of the IANA functions, but US probably knows that these functions would not eternally remain as a DoC controlled operation. In the long term (how long it is is left to the comfort if the reader), US would open up. If not bequeath the functions to a committe of 200, IANA might at least include a few experts from different geographic regions in a gesture of Internationalization. US would know that a posture of total unwillingness causes undesirable moves such as imaginative proposals for a Circus for Internet Governance.
> 
I suspect that the various parts of the US Government, when considering Internet
matters, are quite capable of recognizing when circumstances warrant a change 
on how the various IANA functions are performed.   

After all, the USG has seen the transition from top-down formal contracting for these 
functions to a more open bottom-up multi-stakeholder management of critical Internet 
resources, including the decentralization of IP address management to the RIRs, the
formation of ICANN, and replacement of the JPA with the Affirmation of Commitments. 

None of the above would have been possible coming from "a posture of total unwillingness"...

> As an answer to all these undesirable distractions, why not offer a glimpse of what is to come 10 years or less or more later ?

Why should we presume that such a roadmap should come from the USG, as opposed
the Internet community itself?

/John

Disclaimer:  Also thinking aloud, on my own, hats on the hanger...


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