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

[Sivasubramanian M]

On Aug 3, 2012 6:29 AM, "John Curran" <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Who knows this?  Who understands this?  How many people know that it takes
no more than $3k to mirror the ICANN root server? A few among the few
thousand ICANN / IG / RIR / ISOC participants. In a world of sensational
headlines on unilateral control of the root, all these positive goodness is
buried in fine print.  The gestures I have talked about would be a visible,
graphic answer to the bad headlines.

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

So it appears to the common man, or made to appear to the common man in a
carefully archestrated propaganda of misleading 'headlines'  that appears
to me to be a psychological campaign with carefully calculated omissions.

>
>> 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?

:-)

Sivasubramanian M

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