[governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still...)

[McTim]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:04 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> On Aug 10, 2012, at 2:37 PM, parminder wrote:
>
> When someone says that anyone wanting a change has to "outline said
> plausible alternative and why its risks/costs are less than the
> certainties/benefits of the SQ", and carries on at length to show - as most
> of your email does - that there isnt any clear demand for change, and when
> that someone is not an appointed neutral referee or something but a
> political player in the arena, then that person's politics is legitimately
> called as status quoist. I stick to my position.
>
>
> Which willfully misrepresents my clearly stated position,
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:18 AM, William Drake wrote:
>
> While, like many in CS and the TC, I support the concept of decoupling
> root change authorizations from sole USG responsibility if and when a
> plausibly reliable alternative can be identified, realistically it has to
> recognized that this would need to be an evolutionary process that plays
> out over some years, with dialogue and collective learning rather than
> posturing and demanding as the lead edge.
>
>
> So I guess we're done.  You can now get back to sending dozens of long
> multiscreen messages claiming to be the tribune of the whole global South
> which all is just having a collective brain embolism over zone file signing
> and berating anyone who dares to ask for evidence.
>


or ignoring folk who ask questions like "have you asked the people who you
have proposed to take over rootserver functions if they want to/can do/have
the money to do that ?"



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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